Law Dictionary

In forest law. The fawning season of deer.

Belonging to a fee or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal.

or FEARME (Saxon; Law Lat. firma). Food, provisions. Spelman, voc. "Firma." An entertainment or feast. Id. Herod gegearwode mycle feorme, Herod made a great feast. Sax. Evang. St.

A farm; a leasehold; rent.

Wild heasts. FER@ NATURA. Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition. Animals which are by nature wild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latte

Wild beasts. FERAE NATURAE (Lat. of a wild nature; untamed). A term used to designate animals not usually tamed, or not regarded as reclaimed, so as to become the subjects of prope

Animals wild by nature. See 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 42.

Wild beasts.

For purposes of subparagraph (C)(ii), the term “FERC” means— (i) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or (ii) in the case of any utility with respect to which all of the elect

Ital. A kind of small vessel or boat. Mentioned in old Scotch law, and called "fercost." Skene.

A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell.

A summons to serve in the army. FERIA (Lat.) In old English law. A week day;' a holiday; a day on which process may not be served; a fair; a ferry. Du Cange; Spelman; Cowell; 4 Ree

Used in Domesday for ferdindel. See Fardel, Fardingdeal,

Apparently a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotaeti. Anc. Inst. Eng.

A fine for not joining the army.

An acquittance of manslaughter committed in the army; also a fine Imposed on persons for not going forth on a military expedition, Cowell. FERIA (Lat.). In Old English Law. A week-

Of a wild nature. This term is used to designate animals which are not usually tamed. Such animals belong to the person who has captured them only while they are in his power; for

In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during which free-born Romans suspended their political transactions and their lawsuits, and during which slaves enjoyed

A holiday.

Holidays.

Lat. [from Sax. fare, passage, and eie, water.] In old English law. A ferry. Spelman, See Ferry,

Holidays; also, working-days.

Originally and properly days free from labor and pleading. In St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 5, working days. Cowell.

A wound. FERME (Saxon). A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture or lease. Plowd. 195; Vicat; Cowell. See "Farm."

In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borough.

A fourth part of a yardland.

or FERLINGUM. A furlong. Co. Litt. 5 b.

[L. Fr. ferlinge, L. Lat. ferlingus; from Sax. feorthling.] In old English law. A fourth or quarter. The fourth part of a penny. Spelman. Cowell.

The right of a tenant to his lands and tenements, Cowell.

Same as Farm.

Beverages produced by or which have undergone, a process of uicoholic fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like,

or FERMOR. A lessee; a farmer; one who holds a term, whether of lands or an incorporeal right, such as customs or revenue.

A lessee; a farmer. One who holds a term, whether of lands or an incorporeal right, such as customs or revenue.

The winter season for killing deer.

In French Law. One who farms any public revenue.

[L. Fr. fermer; L. Lat. firmarius, qq. v.] A lessee; one who held a ferm or term. Hence the modern farmer. Held to be not a good addition. Yearbook, T. 28 Hen. VI. 4. ' See Farmer,

A house or land, r both, let by lease. Cowell.

A place in monasteries where the poor were fed. Spelman. FERRi (Lat.) In the civil law. To be torne (on the person). Distinguished from portari, to be carried (on an animal). Dig.

Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition. Animals which are by nature wild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latter being called "domitæ nat

The term “Fern Lake” means Fern Lake located in Bell County, Kentucky, and Claiborne County, Tennessee.

In English Law. A waste ground or place where ferns grow. Cowell.

(pi. FERRAMEN- TA.) Lat. [from ferrum, iron.] In old records. The iron tools or instruments of a mill; iron work in general. Lib. Nig, Heref Blount,

In the civil law. To be borne; that is on or about the person. This was distinguished from portari, (to be carried,) which signified to be carried on an animal. Dig. 60, 16, 235.

The toll or price paid for the transportation of persons and property across a ferry.

Clande Joseph. Dictionnaire dedroitet de pratique. Ist Edn. 1754. 2d Edn. i740. 8d Edn. 2 vols. d4to. Paris, 1762.

In old pleading. An iron mine. Townsh. PI. 273.

Lat. The cementation or welding of iron. Bract, fol. 9 b. Probably a corruption oi ferruminatio, (q. V.)

The shoeing of horses. Kelham.

Iron. In old English law. A horse-shoe. Ferrura, shoeing of horses.

Lat. In the civil law. A welding together. Dig, 6. 1. 23. 6.

Before any such 1 special license to unlade shall be granted, the master, owner, or agent of such 1 vessel or vehicle, or the person in charge of such 1 vehicle, shall be required

At common law, the right to maintain a public ferry lies in franchise; in England such a ferry could not be set up without the King's license; and, in this country, the right has b

One employed in taking persons across a river or other stream, in boats or other contrivances, at a ferry. 3 Ala. 160; 8 Dana (Ky.) 158. FESTINATIO JUSTITIAE EST NOVERca infortunii

Ferries, such as are involved in the present case, are simply means of transit from shore to shore. These have always been regarded as instruments of local convenience, which, for

The manufacture of fertilizer Is a lawful business. The materials necessary to its composition, though objectionable and unwholesome, are property. So long as a municipal corporati

I. Appendant, appurtenant. nances. Pesoher,/;-. To fish. Pescherie: fishery.

The feudal system; the aggregate of feudal principles and usages,

Same as Feasant.

In old English law. The remuneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods.

I. fr. A doer; an actor; the perpetrator of a crime. Fesours de teles noysaiince: the makers of such nuisance. Festinatio jiistitias est noverca infortunii, I. The hm-rying [hasty

In old English law. Grand holidays, on which choirs wore cape, Jacob.

The hastening of justice is the stepmother of misfortune.

A surety; a vassal.

A bondsman; a surety; a pledge; a frank pledge. It was one privilege of monasteries that they should be free from festing men, which Cowell explains to mean not to be bound for any

Earnest given to servants when hired or retained. The same as "arles penny." Cowell. FESTINUM REMEDIUM (Lat. a speedy remedy). A term applied to those cases where the remedy for th

A speedy remedy.

Same as Fistuca.

A festival.

Done; made.

The term “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders” includes a range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy, including physical, mental, beh

The term “fetal alcohol syndrome” or “FAS” means a syndrome in which, with a history of maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy, the following criteria are met: (A) Central n

Fr. (Literally, a matter to be known or understood.) The title of a small French tract, published at the end of Fleta. 2 Reeves' Hist. E. Law, 281. Selden's Diss. ad Flet. c. 1, se

Same as Feciales.

Same as Fecial law.

A sort of iron put on the leg

Same as Foetus.

In Scotch law. A holding or tenure where the vassal in place of military service makes his return in grain or money. Distinguished from "wardholding," which is the military tenure

few, ffew. In Scots law. A free and gratuitous right to lands, made to one for service to be performed by him, according to the proper nature thereof, — for a return in grain or mo

In Scotch law. The reddendo, or annual return from the vassal to a superior in a feu holding. Wharton. FEU ET LIEU (Pr.) In old French and Canadian law. Hearth and home. A term imp

In Scotch law. The tenant of a feu; a feu vassal. Bell, Diet.

Land held of a superior on condition of rendering him services. 2 Bl. Comm. 106. A hereditary right to use lands, rendering services therefor to the lord, while the property in the

[L. Lat. feudum, feodum; Fr. fief, Scotch feu.] A stipendiary estate in land, held of a superior, by service. 1 Steph. Com. 161. — A right which a vassal had in land, or some other

Feuds or fees.

An inheritable interest in land. See 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 338.

Held under a superior, as opposed to allodial.

Real actions. 3 Bl. Comm. 117.

The feudal system.

To reduce to a feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism. Webster.

or FEODAL LAW. A system of tenures of real property which prevailed in the countries of western Europe during the middle ages, arising from the peculiar political condition of thos

The law applying to the feudal system of tenure.

The equivalent of "seisin" under the feudal system.

A system of land tenure having its origin in tho customs of the tribes which overran the territory of the Roman. Empire. See 2 Bl. Comm. 44. See, also, 23 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law,

The tenures of land under the feudal system.

An interest in land not acquired by inheritance. Sec 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 338.

A feud; a feudal tenant.

See "Feodatory."

A recompense for engaging in a feud, and the damages consequent, it having been the custom in ancient times for all the kindred to engage in their kinsman's quarrel. Jacob.

or DEADLY FEUDE. A German Word, signifying implacable hatred, not to be satisfied but with the death of the enemy. Such was that among the people in Scotland and in the northern pa

A writer on feuds, as Cujacius, Spelman, etc.

(Spanish) A feud; a fee. Feudum. A feud; a fee; a fief. Feudum antiquum. An ancient fee. Feudum apertum. A fee whereon the lord might re-enter for the tenants fault.