Law Dictionary
Definitions from our source dictionaries — each term links to a combined page showing every source. The full list of source dictionaries is in the sidebar.
Pleading interposed for delay, and its frivolous character indicates bad faith in the pleading. 51 Wis. 430.
frithsocen, sax. In Saxon and old English law. A liberty, franchise or jurisdiction to keep the peace.
The fruits of another's property; fruits taken from another's estate.
I. In the civil law. Fi-uits; produce of
I I In old English law. To break up. break or plough up new ground.
I. I. In old English law. A piece a piece of land left over, after the measurement piece of land lying by itself, and unconnected or manor.
I. Proof. Frobationes debent esse evidentes (Id est) persplcaa! et faciles intelligi: proofs ought to be evident, that is, clear and easy to be understood. In the civil law. Probat
or FREOMORTEL. An immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angl. tit. 1, p. 173.
An immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 173.
From and after a date certain means excluding that date and beginning with the next one. See 35 Minn. 294, 59 Am. Rep. 326, 28 N. W. 919.
necessarily an appropriation adverse to the state, and this gives color to the Secretary's view.
It was not necessary that jurors should have been summoned from every township in the county, in order to comply with the statute requiring jurors to be summoned from the "body of
FRONTAGER. In English Law. A frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to th
In English law a frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to the liability
In Enplish law a frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, Tiver, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to the liability
As used in an act proheld synonymous with “abutting foot.” Moberly v. Hogan, 131 Mo. 19, 32 S. W. 1014. See Assessmekt.
In international law. That portion of the territory of any country which lies close along the border line of another country, and so "fronts" or faces it. The term means something
The term “frontier area” means a frontier county, as defined in section 1395ww(d)(3)(E)(iii)(III) of this title .
The term “frontier community” shall have the meaning given the term in regulations issued under subsection (r).
In this clause, the term “frontier county” means a county in which the population per square mile is less than 6.
The term “Frontier Crimes Regulation” means the Frontier Crimes Regulation, codified under British law in 1901, and applicable to the FATA.
The term “frontier health professional shortage area” means an area— (A) with a population density less than 6 persons per square mile within the service area; and (B) with respect
In this clause, the term “frontier State” means a State in which at least 50 percent of the counties in the State are frontier counties.
The term “frontline employee” means an employee of a public transportation agency who is a transit vehicle driver or operator, dispatcher, maintenance and maintenance support emplo
The term "frontline operational component" means any of the following entities of the Department: (A) U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (B) U.S. Immigration and Customs
An expression which “has no proper application to a line, and has not a natural or genemlly acknowledged and received sense. It is too vague to determine the length of the front li
or FREOMORTEL. An Immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angl. t. 1. 173.
/. Property. Proprietas plena: the title and the beneficial interest. Froprietas property, the bare title.
/. By protesting; •wordiS in a.
The term “frozen concentrated orange juice” means all products classifiable under subheading 2009.11.00 of the HTS.
For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “frozen deposit” means any deposit which may not be withdrawn because of— (i) the bankruptcy or insolvency of any financial institution,
A term used to impute ingratitude and held libelous, the court taking judicial notice of its meaning without an innuendo. 12 Ad. & El. 624. FRUCTUARIUS (Lat.). One entitled to the
Friborgh. [L. Lat. friborga, friborgus, from Sax. freo, free, and borh or borfes, a pledge.] In Saxon and old English law. A free pledge, or frankpledge; one of the ancient Saxon n
One entitled to fruits and profits; a lessee.
I The rightful taking of the produce of property by a person other than the owner of the property.
Fruit; fruits.
Fruits enhance an inheritance. FRUCTUS PENDENTES PARS FUNDI videntur. Hanging fruits make part of the land. Dig. 6. 1. 44; 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1578. See "Larceny." FRUCTUS PERCEPTOS
Revenues; recompenses.
The fruits (produce or yield) of land.
Annual products of the soil raised by yearly manurance, labor and cultivation. See 42 Minn. 412, 32 Am. St. Rep. 571, 16 L. R. A. 103, 52 N. W. 36.
) Lat. Industrial fruits, or fruits of industry. Those fruits of a thing, as of land, which are produced by -the labor and industry of the occupant, as crops of grain; as distingui
Fruit of the law; execution.
Those products which are produced by the powers of nature alone; as, wool, metals, milk. 1 Kauffm. Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 154; Calv. Lex. Fructus Industrfales, Those products which a
Those produets which are produced by the powers of nature alone; as wool, metals, milk, the young of animals.
The produce or increase of flocks or herds.
Fruits unplucked.
Hanging fruits seem to be a part of the soil.
Gathered fruits are not a part, of the farm.
Fruit of another’s property.
In Civil Law. Separate fruits, the fruits of a thing when they are separated from it. Dig. 7, 4, 13. FRUGES (Lat). Anytliing produced from vines, underwood, chalk-pits, stoue-quarr
Standing fruits; those not yet severed from the stalk or stem. Fructus angent hæreditatem. The yearly increase goes to enchance the inheritance. Dig. 5, 3, 20, 3. Fructus pendentes
The equivalent of “seigin” under the feudal system
A fee which the paternal anceslors had held for four generations. Calvin. One descendible to hvirs on the paternal side only. 2 Bl. Comm. 223. One which might be held by males only
Produce.
- Fruitdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Bouvier (1839)
The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed, or is used for food. The term in legal acceptation, is not confined to the produce of those trees which in popular language
FALLEN. The produce of any possession detached therefrom, and capable of being enjoyed by itself. Thus a next presentation, when a vacancy has occurred, is a fruit fallen from the
The produce of any possession detached therefrom, and capable of being enjoyed by itself. Thus, a next presentation, when a vacancy has occurred, is a fruit fallen from the advowso
the trial judge must give opportunity, however closely confined, to the accused to prove that a substantial portion of the case against him was a fruit of the poisonous tree. This
The import of the statute is that the fruit is not to be attributed to a different tree from that on which it grew.
such fruits as have required skill in preparation.
- Fruits Of Crimedefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)
In the law of evidence. Material objects acquired by means and in consequence of the commission of crime, and sometimes constituting the subject matter of the crime. Burrill, Circ
The illegality of Mitchell's detention does not retroactively change the circumstances under which he made the disclosures. These, we have seen, were not elicited through illegalit
Grains which are sown are understood to go with the soil.
Grain which is sown is understood to form a part of the soil. Inst. 2, 1, 32.
- Frumentumdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)
In the civil law. Grain; that which grows in an ear (wrista). Dig. 60, 16, 77.
The initial recompense to the relatives of one murdered.
The first payment made to the kindred of a slain person in recompense for his murder. Blount; Termes de la Ley; Leg. Edmundi, cap. ult.
Sax. In Saxon law. A chief seat or mansion house. Cowell.
- Frusca Terradefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Burrill (1850)
In old records. -Uncultivated and desert ground. 2 Mon. Angl. 327; Cowell. FRU8SURA. A breaking; plowing. Frussura domorum, housebreaking. Cowell. FRUSTRA AGIT QUI JUDICIUM PROSEqu
Inoldrecords. Uncultivated and desert ground. 2 Mon, Angl. 327; Cowell.
lu Lat. In old records. To break up. Frussare terram; to break or plough up new ground. Cowell.
1 1 In old English law. A breaking, or sura doniorum: house breaking. Frussnra or land lately ploughed up.
A ploughing.
In vain.
He sues vainly who is unable to prosecute his judgment with effect.
A power or authority is vain which is never exercised.
- Frustra expectatur eventus cujus effectus nullus sequiturdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)
It is vain to look forward to an event which is to be followed by no result.
Laws are made to no purpose, except for those that are subject and obedient. Branch, Prlnc.
It is vain to make laws unless for those who are subject and obedient.
That is done to no purpose by many things which can be done by fewer. Jenk. Cent. p. 68, case 28. The employment of more means or instruments for effecting a thing than are necessa
QUOD fieri potest per pauciora. That is done vainly by many things, which might be accomplished by fewer. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 68; Wingate, Max. 177. FRUSTRA LEGIS AUXILIUM QUAERIT qui
He acts vainly by many agencies who could act by a few of them.
He vainiy Invokes the aid of the law who transgresses the law. Fleta, llb. 4, c. 2, § 3; 2 Hale, P. C. 386; Broom, Max. 279, 297.
One vainly seeks the law’s aid who has transgressed it.
In vain you ask that which you will have immediately to restore. 2 Kames, Eq. 104; 5 Man. & G. 757.
It is vain that you should seek what you will have to restore immediately. See 15 Mass. 407.
It is vain that you should seek that which you will be compelled immediately to transfer to another.
It is vain to prove that which when proved is irrelevant. See 13 Gray (Mass.), 511.
The Court of Claims erred in failing to distinguish between an appropriation of property and the frustration of an enterprise by reason of the exercise of a superior governmental p
The test of nondeductibility always is the severity and immediacy of the frustration resulting from allowance of the deduction. Deduction of fines and penalties uniformly has been
That power is to no purpose which never comes Into act, or which is never exercised. 2 Coke, 51.
A piece or parcel of land lying by itself. Co. Litt. 5b.
A pieceor pareel of Jand lying by itself. Co. Litt. 5d.
A segregated piece or parcel of land.
I. A piece, or single tract, of land.
In old records. A place overgrown with shrubs and bushes. Spelman; Blount.
A bush.
Bushes.
In Spanish law. Fruits; products; produce; grains; profits. White, New Recop. bk. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, § 2. FRYTHE (Saxon). In old English law. An arm of the sea, or a strait between t
FYNMITH. In English Law. The affording harbor and entertainment to any one. Anc. Inst. Eng. FRYTH (Sax.). In Old English Law. A plain between woods. Co. Litt. 5 b. An arm of the se