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The form in use by the old English law writers instead of feudum, and having the same meaning. Feudwn is used generally by the more modern writers and by the feudal law writers. Li

An inherited feud, as distinguished from feodum, novum, a feud acquired by the tenant. FEODUM EST QUOD QUIS TENET EX quacunque causa; sive sit tenementum sive reddit^s. A fee is th

A fee is something that one holds from whatever cause, whether it be tenement or rent.

Co. Litt. 1. A fee is that which any one holds from whatever cause, whether tenement or rent.

A fief for which the tenant did guard and owed homage. Spelman.

See Feudum nobile .

See "Feodum Antiquum.!' FEODUM SIMPLEX QUIA FEODUM idem est quod haereditas, et simplex idem est quod legitimum vel purum; et sic feodum simplex Idem est quod haereditas legitlma v

A new fee held with the qualities and incidents of an ancient one. 2 Bl. Comm. 212.

A fee simple, because fee is the same as inheritance and simple is same as lawful or pure; and so fee simple is the same as lawful inheritance or pure inheritance.

Litt. § 1. A fee-simple, so called because fee is the same as inheritance, and simple is the same as lawful or pure; and thus fee-simple is the same as a lawful inheritance, or pur

i. e., HAEREDItas In quandam certitudinem llmitata. Fee tail, i. e., an inheritance limited in a definite descent. Litt. § 13.

A fee-tail, that is an inheritance limited in a certain descent.

Lat. [from feoffare, q. v.] In old English law. A feoffment; the gift of a fee; the act of enfeoffing. Spelman, voc. Feoffare. More commonly written feoffamentum, (q. v.)

Lat. To enfeoff. 5pe/man. See Feoffare.

A feoffment. 2 Bl. Comm. 310.

To bestow a fee. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 91.

To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called "feoffator," and the grantee or feoffee, "feoffatus."

In old English law. A feoflfer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment. Bracton, • f ols. 12b, 81.

A feoffee.

He enfeoffed.

He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt. § Ij 2 Bl. Comm. 20.

A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. One holding the same position with swers to the haeres fiduciarius of the Roman law.

A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion that the seisin be passed. Watk. Conv. 183. The

A feoffment of lands to one person to the use of another.

He who makes a feoffment. 2 Bl. Comm. 20; Litt. § 1. FEOH (Saxon). A reward; wages; a fee. The word was in common use in these senses. Spelman, Feuds.

feffement. A conveyance in fee, of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by livery of seisin or actual delivery of possession; the deed, instrument, or charter, as it

A fee; a reward.

I. L In old English law. A feoffer.

feofatus, I. I. In old English law. A feoffea

1. The gift of a feud; infeudation. See Feud. Enfeoff. To give a feud. reoffor. The grantor of a feud. Feoffee. The giantee of a feud. 2. The gift of any corporeal hereditament," b

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.

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