Law Dictionary

It l3 a fraud to conceal a fraud. 1 Vern. 270.

It is fraud to conceal fraud.

ET NON PBAEsumenda. Fraud is odious, and not to he presumed. Cro. Car. 550. FRAUS ET DOLUS NEMINI PATROCI- FRAUS ET JUS NUNQUAM COHABITant. Fraud and justice never dwell ■ together

Fraud is odious and will not be presumed.

Fraud and deceit ought to excuse no one.

Fraud and justice never live together.

Fraud lies hidden in generalities.

(Lat.) In civil law. Fraud of law; fraud upon law. See "In Fraudem Legis."

Fraud deserves fraud. Plowd. 110; Branch, Princ. This is very poor law.

Afreeholder. See Fr RaNK-TENEMENT.

In old English law. A wood of ashes; a place where ashes grow. Co. Litt. 4b; Shep. Touch. 95.

See "Aferay."

In feudal law. A kind of benefices, so called because they were possessed by the more eminent templars, whom the chief master by his authority created and called "Prœceptores Templ

A list of persons admitted as burgesses or freemen for the purposes of the rights reserved by the municipal corporation act, (5 & 6 Wm, IY, ce. 76.) Distinguished from the Burgess

tribuch, Trebuchetura, I In old English law. A tumbrel" or cucking-stool.

preces, I. Day's-works, performed for the lord in harvest time by the tenants of certain manors.

To freight.

In Old English law. Freight. Blount.

The term "Freddie Mac conforming loan limit" means the limit determined under section 305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 1454(a)(2)) f

A liberty to hold courts and take up the fines for beating and wounding. Cowell; Cunningham. To be free from fines.

or FRIDSTOLE. Sanctuaries; seats of peace.

Sanctuaries; seats of peace.

A fine paid for obtaining pardon when the peace had been broken. Spelman; Blount. A sum paid the magistrate for protection against the right of revenge. 1 Robertson, Hist. Charles

or FREDWITE. A liberty to hold courts and take up the flhes for beating and wounding. Jacob, Law Diet

fridwite, frithwite, sax. In paid to obtain peace, or exemption

a privilege to print or pray without permission and without accounting to authority for one's actions.

Tenure by indefinite spiritual Services; frankalmoigne (q. v.).

International union elections must be held not less often than once every five years and local union elections not less often than once every three years. Elections must be by secr

this confession was not free and voluntary but was the product of coercion and duress, that petitioner was no longer able freely to admit or to deny or to refuse to answer, and tha

special education and related services which (A) have been provided at public expense, under public supervision and direction, and without charge, (B) meet the standards of the Sta

The title to property is said to be "free and clear" when it is not incumbered by any liens; but it is said that an agreement to convey land "free and clear" is satisfied by a conv

Copyhold lands which the wife has for dower after the decease of her husband. Kitch. Cts. 102; Bracton, lib. 4, tr. 6, c. 13, No. 2; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 150; Plowd. 411. Dower in cop

A widow's dower out of copyholds to which she is entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed a cont

“freeboard” means the distance from the mark of the load line assigned under this chapter to the freeboard deck.

“freeboard deck” means the deck or other structure the Secretary prescribes by regulation.

An allowance of land outside the fence, which may be claimed by the owner. An allowance, in some places, two

In old records. An allowance of land over and above a certain limit or boundary, as so much beyond or without a fence. Cowell; Blount. The right of claiming that quantity. Termes d

Such great men as did not engage, like the frank-pledge men, for their decennier. Jacob.

One which had charter rights from the crown.

A frank pledge.

A chapel founded by the king, and exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary. It may be one founded or endowed by a private person under a grant from the king. Cowell; Termes d

(A) For purposes of this subsection, the term "free clinic" means a health care facility operated by a nonprofit private entity meeting the following requirements: (i) Th

Effective control means that such signs, displays, or devices after January 1, 1968, if located within six hundred and sixty feet of the right-of-way and, on or after July 1, 1975,

a free and open market among both buyers and sellers for the sale and distribution of commodities.

Having the wind from a favorable quarter. To prevent collision of vessels, it is the duty of the vessel having the wind free to give way to a vessel beating up to windward and tack

A vessel having the wind from a favorable quarter is said to sail on a "free course," or said to be "going free" when she has a fair (following) wind and her yards braced in. The Q

In Roman law. A person who had been released from a state of servitude. See "Liberti."

The power by which man can do what does not interfere with the rights of another; its basis is nature; its standard is justice; its protection is law; its moral boundary is the max

more than freedom from handcuffs, straitjackets, or detention cells.

The matter in dispute in this case, is the freedom of the petitioners. The judgment of the court below is against their claims to freedom; the matter in dispute is, therefore, to t

freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the 'liberty' assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, w

Freedom of choice' is not a sacred talisman; it is only a means to a constitutionally required end—the abolition of the system of segregation and its effects. If the means prove ef

This court has had frequent occasion to declare that there is no absolute freedom of contract. The exercise of the police power fixing weights and measures and standard sizes must

more than simply the right to talk and to write.

the freedom of speech and of the press which is secured by the Constitution, does not confer an absolute right to speak or publish, without responsibility, whatever one may choose,

fundamental personal rights and liberties. The phrase is not an empty one and was not lightly used. It reflects the belief of the framers of the Constitution that exercise of the r

In English Law. Immunity from county jurisdiction, and the privilege of corporate taxation and self-government held under a charter from the crown. This freedom is enjoyed of right

The business of the Associated Press is not immune from regulation because it is an agency of the press. The publisher of a newspaper has no special immunity from the application o

The sea is open to all nations: No nation has an exclusive property in the sea.

Of that freedom one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Thus the Amendment embraces two concepts,—freedom to believe and freedom to act. The first is absolute but, in the nature of things, the second cannot be.

The First Amendment declares that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The Fourteenth Amendment has rendered

INGRESS AND EGRESS. The right to go upon land from time to time,as required to assert any right, as to take emblements.

An expression used to denote that a person has the right to go on land again and again as often as may be reasonably necessary. Thus, in the case uf a tenant entitled to emblements

The term “Free Exercise Clause” means that portion of the first amendment to the Constitution that proscribes laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion.

if the purpose or effect of a law is to impede the observance of one or all religions or is to discriminate invidiously between religions, that law is constitutionally invalid even

The constitutional inhibition of legislation on the subject of religion has a double aspect. On the one hand, it forestalls compulsion by law of the acceptance of any creed or the

A franchise which gives an exclusive right of fishing in a public navigable river, without any ownership on the soil. 3 Kent, Comm. 329; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 39; 1 Salk. 637; Woo

Same as Foldage.

un- Cite as: 589 U. S. ____ (2020) 5 Opinion of the Court tainted" or "[c]lear of (something which is regarded as objectionable)." Webster's Third New International Dictionary 905

See "Estates."

someone with a fee or similar estate in land.

In American law. The name of a court formerly established in South Carolina for the trial of slaves and free persons of color for criminal offenses.

Same as Freehold.

A freehold which has descended to a man, upon which he may enter at pleasure, but which he has not entered on. Termes de la Ley.

Socleties in England designed for the purpose of enabling mechanics, artisans, and other Working men to purchase, at the least possible price, a piece of freehold land of a suffici

The term “free institution” means an institution that emerged out of Western civilization, such as democracy, constitutional government, individual rights, market economics, religi

A term formerly used in England to designate the freedom of civil rights enjoyed by freemen. It was liable to forfeiture on conviction of treason or an infamous crime. McCafferty v

In American law. An estate real property. Frannck estate: a free estate. Fraiink ferine: frank or free Fraunk tenement: a free tenefraudem: it is a fraud to conceal a prsesumenda:

In this subsection, the term “Freely Associated State” means the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

The term “Freely Associated States” means the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. / The term "Freely Associated St

One who Is not a slave; one born free, or made so. In Old English Law. A freeholder, as distinguished from a villein. An inhabitant of a city. St. 1 Hen. VI. c. 11; 3 Steph. Comm.

A list of persons admitted as burgesses or freemen for the purposes of the rights reserved by the municipal corporation act (5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76). Distinguished from the burgess ro

Before the Norman Conquest, a free man might be a man of small estate dependent on a lord. Every man, not himself a lord, was bound to have a lord or be treated as unworthy of a fr

In English law. A list of all persons admitted burgesses or freemen for the purpose of those rights which are reserved by the Municipal Corporation Act, (6 <fe 6 Will. IV. c. 76,)

Abbreviated f. o. b. in the law of sales. A sale free on board is one in which the seller agrees to deliver the goods on board cars or ship at a place named, at his own expense, fr

The designation 'free pass,' as applied to transportation issued or given by railroad companies to shippers and caretakers of stock, had acquired a definite and well-known meaning,

The maintenance of the opportunity for free political discussion to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes may be obtained by lawful m

The term “free public education” means education that is— (A) provided at public expense, under public supervision and direction, and without tuition charge; and (B) provided as el

employees who receive the benefits of union representation but are unwilling to contribute their fair share of financial support to such union

Such as it was not unbecoming the character of a soldier or freeman to perform; as, to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 62; 1 Wash

The free shareholders of a building and loan association are subscribers to its capital stock who are not borrowers from the association. Steinberger v. Independent B. & S. Assn, 8

Neutral ships. "Free ships make free goods" is a phrase often used in treaties to denote that the goods on board neutral ships shall be free from confiscation, even though belongin

by our treaty with Spain, (treaty of 1795, art. 15.,) declaring that free ships shall make free goods, the property of an enemy on board of such a ship is just as much protected fr

Tenure in free socage is a tenure by certain and honorable services which yet are not military. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 52; Dalr. Feud. Prop. c. 2, § 1; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 25. Called,

In old English law. Tenants in free socage. Glanv. lib. 3, c. 7; 2 Bl. Comm. 79. FREE (or FRANK) TENURE. Freehold tenure. The opposite of the ancient villeinage or modern copyhold.

The term “freestanding birth center” means a health facility— (i) that is not a hospital; (ii) where childbirth is planned to occur away from the pregnant woman's residence; (iii)

The term “freestanding birth center services” means services furnished to an individual at a freestanding birth center (as defined in subparagraph (B)) at such center.

fretare, I. I. In old English Frectatus: freighted. Fretati freighted with wines.

Freehold tenure; tenure by free services.