Law Dictionary

A director is a fiduciary. So is a dominant or controlling stockholder or group of stockholders. Their powers are powers in trust. Their dealings with the corporation are subjected

The term “fiduciary adviser” means, with respect to a plan, a person who is a fiduciary of the plan by reason of the provision of investment advice referred to in subsection (e)(3)

The statute 'speaks of technical trusts, and not those which the law implies from the contract.' The scope of the exception was to be limited accordingly.

An agreement by which a person delivers a thing to another on the condition that he will restore it to him. The following formula was employed: Ut inter bonos agere oportet, ne pro

It is not enough for one occupying a confidential relation to another, who is shown to have secretly received a benefit from the opposite party, to say, 'You cannot show any fraud,

Promoters of a corporation stand in a fiduciary relation to it to this extent at least, that they will be chargeable as trustees if they deal with it unconscionably or oppressively

The term is derived from the Roman law, and means (as a noun) a person holding the character of a trustee or a character analogous to that of a trustee, in respect to the trust and

A fee, feod, or feud. A fief was an organically complete brotherhood of associates whose proprietary and personal rights were inextricably blended together. It had much in common w

A fee held on the ticum. Spelman; Calv. Lex.; Du Cange. A knight's fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 62.

A knight-service fee.

In its origin, a fief was a district of country, allotted to one of the chiefs who invaded the Roman empire, as a stipend or reward; with a condition annexed that the possessor sho

The holder of a fief or fee.

In Spanish law. An officer who keeps possession of a thing deposited under authority of law. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 9, lib. 1.

Except in the cases of tobacco, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and hemp, insurance shall not extend beyond the period during which the insured commodity is in the field. As used in the

In Spanish law. Sequestration. This is allowed in six cases by the Spanish law where the title to property is in dispute. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 3, liv. 1.

or FILKDALE. The drinking of ale by bailiffs and other officers in the field, at the expense of the hundred; an old English custom long since prohibited. Toml.

The term “field-based course” means a course of instruction offered by an institution of higher education that includes a requirement that students teach a minimum of 3 lessons or

The term “field employee” means— (i) an employee of the National Park Service who is exclusively assigned by the National Park Service to perform duties at a field unit, and the me

The term "fielding target" has the meaning given that term in section 2448a(a) of this title. / The term "fielding target" has the meaning given that term in se

The term “field-initiated research” means education research in which topics and methods of study are generated by investigators, including teachers and other practitioners, not by

The term “field office” means any office of a Federal agency that is not the headquarters office location for the Federal agency.

Patent owners may grant licenses extending to all uses or limited to use in a defined field.

The test, therefore, is whether the matter on which the State asserts the right to act is in any way regulated by the Federal Act. If it is, the federal scheme prevails though it i

An officer elected, in England, by the owners of a regulated pasture, to keep in order the fences, ditches, etc., on the land, to regulate the times during which animals are to be

The term “field related to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources” means any discipline or field, including marine affairs, resource management, technology, education, or scienc

“field related to space” means any academic discipline or field of study (including the physical, natural, and biological sciences, and engineering, space technology, education, ec

The term “field structure” means the offices, functions, and employee positions of all agencies, offices, or other administrative units of the Department, other than the headquarte

Ancient Gothic courts "in the lowest instance." So called because four were instituted within every superior district or hundred. Their jurisdiction was limited within forty shilli

Lat To be made; to be done. See In Fieri.

The ordinary writ of fieri facias is the authority of the sheriff to levy on property and sell it

When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant 4s a beneficed clerk, not having any lay fee, a plaintiff may issue a fi. fa. de bonis ecclesiasticis,

The writ issued on an ordinary judgment against an executor when sued for a debt due by his testator. If the sheriff returns to this writ nulla bona, and a devastavit (q. V.), the

I have caused it to be made, the return on a fieri facias, after levy.

SED FACTUM VAlet. It ought not to be done, but done, it is valid. 5 Coke, 39; 1 Strange, 526; 19

It ought not to be done, but [if] done, it is valid. Shep. Touch. 6; 5 Coke, 39; T. Raym. 58; 1 Strange, 526. A maxim frequently applied in practice. Nichols v. Ketcham, 19 Johns.

It ought not to be done, but done, it is valid. See 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 84.

An abbreviation for fieri facias (q. V.) FIANCER (Law Fr.) To pledge one's faith. Kelham. FIANZA (Spanish). Surety; the contract by which one person engages to pay the debt or fulf

The Amendment does not take away from the state governments in a general sense the power over suffrage which has belonged to those governments from the beginning... But it is equal

A temporary aid, consisting of a fifteenth part of the personal property in every township, borough, and city in the kingdom. The valuation of the kingdom was fixed, and a record m

a limitation only upon the powers of the General Government, and is not directed against the action of individuals

the immunity provided by the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination is personal to the witness himself, and ... he cannot set up the privilege of another person or of a corporati

This amendment is not obligatory upon the governments of the several states or their judicial establishments, and regulates the procedure of the Federal courts only.

Ordinances of Justinian (529-532) upon the authority of which all moot points were settled in the preparation of the hecond edition of the Code. Taylor, Science of Jurispr. 144.

Does not necessarily imply that both parties should give and take blows. It is sufficient that they voluntarily put their bodies in position with that intent; State v. Gladden, 73

In this section, the term “fighter aircraft” has the meaning given that term in section 9062(i)(2) of this title .

the insulting or 'fighting' words—those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace

or FIGHTWITE (Saxon). A mulct or fine for making a quarrel to the disturbance of the peace. Called also by Cowell forisfactura pugnae. The amount was one hundred and twenty shillin

A fine for disturbing the peace.

Numerals. They are either Roman, made with letters of the alphabet: for example, mdccia'xvi; or they are Arabic, as follows: 1776. Roman figures may be used in contracts and law pr

A person who, after committing an offense, has fled from justice; a slave who has fled from his master.

sax. In Saxon law. A compensation, satisfaction or fine for breach of the peace.

sax. In Saxon law. A breach or violation of the peace.

An officer of the common pleas, whose duty it was to file the writs on which he made process. There were fourteen of them, and it was their duty to make out all original process. C

iilizers. (From Filace,/r., a file.) Officers in the C. P. and other supei-ior courts ^ho fled and issued writs.

Lat. [from Fr. fil.] A file. Spelman. See File.

In old -English practice. To file. Towns. PI. 67.

Lat. In old English practice. To file. Tovms, PL 67.

In old English law. A word used by Bracton to denote a kind of compotation or entertainment, given by bailiffs of hundreds, for the purpose of extorting money from those who attend

to deliver to the City Secretary for safekeeping as a public record of the City of Dallas.

A string or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices were formerly fastened or filed for safe-keeping; the paper itself or a number of papers so filed.

I. Jr. A thread, line or mark. v. Filum aquoe.

oral as well as written complaints within its scope.

It is essential to the maintenance of uniform rates and the avoidance of rebates and preferential treatment that the tariff rates filed with the Commission according to the interst

But so long as the tariff rate, based on value, remained operative, it was binding upon the shipper and carrier alike, and was to be enforced by the courts in fixing the rights and

Brit. A name given to villeins in the laws of Hoel Dda. Barring. Obs. St. 302.

Where an inventor, seeking a broad claim which is rejected, in which rejection he acquiesces, substitutes therefor a narrower claim, he cannot be heard to insist that the construct

See Emancipation; Parent.

To declare whose child a bastard is. 2 W. Bl. 1017.

Filiation; paternity.

In civil law. The descent of son or daughter, with regard to his or her father, mother, and their ancestors. Nature always points out the mother by evident signs, and, whether marr

Filiation cannot be proved. Co. Litt. 126a. But see 7 & 8 Vict. c. 101.

In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground; a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 4b; Shep. Touch. 95.

Delivery to and leaving with the proper officer the instrument to be filed. See 77 Wis. 136, 20 Am. St. Rep. 102, 45 N. W. 953.

For purposes of the liquidation proceeding, the term “filing date” means the date on which the Corporation is appointed as receiver of the covered broker or dealer. / The term “fil

Under the procedures prescribed by the Judicial Conference of the United States, the district court or the bankruptcy court may waive the filing fee in a case under chapter 7 of ti

For purposes of this subsection, the term “filing location” means— (A) the office of the clerk of the Tax Court, or (B) any on-line portal made available by the Tax Court for elect

The term “filing month” means the month in which the installment is required to be paid.

The filing of the plea was both an appearance and a defence. The case stood for the time between one term and another with an appearance and a plea. The withdrawal of the plea coul

I. In old English law. A son; a child. Filius est nomen iiatarse, sed liseres nomen juris: son is a name of nature, but heir is a name of law. Filius mnlieratus: v. Mulier. Filius

7 Coke, 8. A son in the mother's womb is part of the mother's vitals.

In old records. A godson. Spelman. FILIUS (Lat.) A son; a child. As distinguished from heir, filius is a term of nature, haeres a term of law. 1 Powell, Dev. 311. In the civil law

A son.

SED haeres nomen juris. Son is a name of nature, but heir a name of law. 1 Sid. 193; 1 Powell, Dev. 311. FILIUS FAMILIAS (Lat.) A son who is under the control and power of his fath

Son is the natural name, but heir is the legal name.

A son under paternal control.

A son in his mother’s womb is part of the mother’s vitals.

A legitimate son.

In the eye of that law, he was filius nullius. He had neither father, mother, nor sister. He could neither take from, nor transmit to, those standing in such relations to him, any

A son of the people; a bastard.

Same as Filacer.

To occupy the whole capacity or extent of, so as to leave no space vacant. To possess and discharge the duties of an ofiice. The election of a person to an ofllce constitutes the e

A girl; a daughter.

any milk, cream, or skimmed milk, whether or not condensed, evaporated, concentrated, powdered, dried, or desiccated, to which has been added, or which has been blended or compound

A mare not more than one year old. Russ. & Ry. 416; Ib. 494. FILUM AQU 4, thread or middle of a water course, (q. v.)

The term “filling new prescriptions for controlled substances in schedule III, IV, or V” means filling a prescription for an individual for a controlled substance in schedule III,

For the purpose of this paragraph, the term “fill pipe” shall include the fuel tank fill pipe, fill neck, fill inlet, and closure.

A young mare.

any motion picture film or series of films, whether full length or short subject, but does not include newsreels portraying actual current events or pictorial news of the day.

A son.

filtering that underblocks, imposes a cost upon each family that uses it, fails to screen outside the home, and lacks precision.