Law Dictionary

A stream capable of floating logs, etc., is said to be floatable. 2 Mich. 519.

The term “floatable material” means any foreign matter that may float or remain suspended in the water column. / The term “floatable material” includes— (i) plastic; (ii) aluminum

One capable of bearing the products of mines, forests and tillage to mills or markets. See 116 N. C. 731, 47 Am. St. Rep. 829, 21 S. E. 941.

Same as Flotage.

In this section, the term “floating cabin” means a watercraft or other floating structure— (1) primarily designed and used for human habitation or occupation; and (2) not primarily

Funds set apart for general expenses.

The capital which is consumed at each operation of production and reappears transformed into new producte. At each sale of these producis the capital is represented In cash, and It

(or circulating capital.) The capital which is consumed at each operation of production and reappeurs transformed into new pruducts. Ateach sale of these products the capital is re

By the term "floating debt," as applied to a municipal corporation, is meant that mass of lawful and valid claims against the corporation, for the payment of which there is no mone

In this section, the term “floating drydock” means equipment that is— (1) constructed in the United States; and (2) capable of meeting the lifting and maintenance requirements of a

In this section, the term “floating dry dock” means equipment with wing walls and a fully submersible deck.

A policy of fire insurance not applicable to any specific described goods, but to any and ali goods which may at the time of the fire be in a certain building.

A floating security is "a security on the property of the company as a going concern, subject to the powers of the directors to dispose of the property of the company while carryin

it was left to the petitioner to have a survey made of the land in the district referred to by the concession, by the surveyor-general of the province, in due form, on the ground,

An insurance policy covering generally the interest of the insured without describing particular property. See 93 U. S. 541, 23 L. Ed. 869.

High-tide mark. Blount. The mark which the sea at flowing water and highest tide makes upon the shore. And. 189; Cunningham.

Flood-mark, high-water mark. The mark which the sea, at flowing water and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount.

Thrashing or beating with a whip or lash. This system of punishment was abolished in the army by act of Aug. 6, 1861; U. S. Rev. Stat § 1342; in the navy June 6, 1872; id. $ 1642.

For purposes of this section, the term “flood disaster area” means an area with respect to which— (1) the Secretary of Agriculture finds, or has found, to have been substantially a

The term “flood insurance” means flood insurance coverage provided under the national flood insurance program pursuant to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 [ 42 U.S.C. 4001

The term “floodplain management” means the operation of a community program of corrective and preventative measures for reducing flood damage.

The term "Floodway" means the Colorado River Floodway established in section 1600c of this title.

The section of a building between horizontal planes. Lowell v. Strahan, 145 Mass. 8, 12 N. E. 401, 1 Am. St. Rep. 422. In a lease the words “first floor” are equivalent to the “fir

The term “floor broker” means any person— (i) who, in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged,

The term "floor plan financing indebtedness" means indebtedness— (i) used to finance the acquisition of motor vehicles held for sale or lease, and (ii) secured by the inv

The term "floor plan financing interest" means interest paid or accrued on floor plan financing indebtedness.

For purposes of subparagraph (B), the term “floor space fraction” means the fraction— (i) the numerator of which is the total floor space of the low-income units in such building,

The term “floor specialist” means a person who is— (A) a member of a national securities exchange, (B) is registered as a specialist with the exchange, and (C) meets the requiremen

The term “floor trader” means any person— (i) who, in or surrounding any pit, ring, post, or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged,

The term “Floraboard” means the board provided for under section 4306 of this title.

The term “floral supplier” means a person engaged in acquiring cut flowers or cut greens to be manufactured into floral articles or otherwise processed for resale.

The term “floral wholesale jobber” means a person who conducts a commission or other wholesale business in buying and selling cut flowers or cut greens.

A copy of the Pandects discovered accidentally about the year 1137, at Amalphi, a town in Italy, near Salerno. From Amalphi, the copy found its way to Pisa, and_, Pisa having submi

The name of one of the territories of the United States of America. It was purchased from Spain by treaty between the United States and Spain, executed at Washington on the twenty-

The term “Florida Department of Transportation” means the executive branch department and agency of the State of Florida that— (A) is responsible for the construction and maintenan

The settled doctrine in respect to these Florida grants is, that grants for lands, embracing a wide extent of country, or within a large area of natural or artificial boundaries, a

All the grants of lands, made by the lawful authorities of the king of Spain, before the 24th of January 1818, were, by the treaty, ratified and confirmed to the owners of the land

A coin, originally made at Florence. Called, also, "gulder."

Flotsam; things floating in the water.

Things which float by accident on the sea or great rivers. Blount. The commissions of water bailiffs. Cunningham.

Lat A fleet. Flota navium; a fleet of ships. Blount, Toums. PL 68.

Lat. Floating. Towns. PI. 68.

a legislative district which includes within its boundaries several separate districts or political subdivisions which independently would not be entitled to additional representat

or FLOTSAN. A name for the goods which float upon the sea when cast overboard for the safety of the ship, or when a ship is sunk. Distinguished from "jetsam" and "ligan." Bracton,

a name for the goods which float upon the sea when cast overboard for the safety of the ship or when a ship is sunk. Distinguished from "jetsam" and "ligan." Bract, lib. 2, c. 5; B

Fetsam, flotsam and ligan, are not matters of revenue, and are cognizable in the Admiralty; but wreck is determinable by the Common Law.

Floating goods from a wreck. See 1 Add. (Pa.) 59.

Flodemark (q. v.) FLUMEN (Law Lat.) In civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right of turning the rain water, gathered in a spout, on another's land. Ersk. Inst,

The natural flowage of water from an upper estate to a lower one is a servitude which the owner of the latter must bear, though the flowage be not in a natural watercourse with wel

See Laeceny; Pekish ABLE;

The term “flowers and plants” means cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, and propagational material.

Raising and settling back water on another’s land by a dam placed across a stream or watercourse which Is the natural drain and outlet for the surplus water on such land. Call v. C

Federal jurisdiction was to follow the flow of electric energy, an engineering and scientific, rather than a legalistic or governmental, test

Flood tide.

The term “fluidized bed combustion” means combustion of fuel in connection with a bed of inert material, such as limestone or dolomite, which is held in a fluid-like state by the m

In this section the term “fluid milk” means all varieties of pasteurized cow’s milk that— (1) is without flavoring or sweeteners, (2) is consistent with the most recent dietary rec

The term “fluid milk processor” means any person who processes and markets commercially more than 3,000,000 pounds of fluid milk products in consumer-type packages per month (exclu

The term “fluid milk product” has the meaning given the term in— (A) section 1000.15 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, subject to such amendments as may be made by the Secre

the term “fluid milk products” means those milk products normally consumed in liquid form as a beverage; / the term “fluid milk products” means those milk products normally consume

A wooden viaduct for carrying water or floating timber.

The easement of allowing rain-water to run from a roof to a neighbor's land.

Rivers and ports are public and the right to fish is therefore common to all.

Wild fowl; water fowl. 11 East 671.

Except as provided in subparagraph (E), the term “fluorescent lamp” means a low pressure mercury electric-discharge source in which a fluorescing coating transforms some of the ult

The term “fluorescent lamp ballast” means a device which is used to start and operate fluorescent lamps by providing a starting voltage and current and limiting the current during

The terms “blowout”, “flushometer tank”, “low consumption”, and “flushometer valve” have the meaning given such terms in ASME A112.19.2M–1990.

The terms “blowout”, “flushometer tank”, “low consumption”, and “flushometer valve” have the meaning given such terms in ASME A112.19.2M–1990.

Z. In old English law. A river. Fluyii regales: royal streams, — public rivers for public passage; flood, or flood-tide.

A public river; flood tide,

(Lat.) In old English law. A river. Fluvii regales, royal streams. Public rivers for public passage (Fr. haut stremes le roy). So called, not in reference to the ownership of the r

The term "flux" means the rate of flow of photons. / The term "flux" means the rate of flow of photons.

In old English law. Flow. Per fluxum et refluxum maris, by the flow and reflow of the sea. Dal. pi. 10. FLYMA (Saxon). A fugitive or outlaw. Spelman.

Anciently, It was the custom in a criminal trial to inquire after a verdict, “Did he fly for it?” After the verdict, even If not guilty, forfeiture of goods followed conviction upo

This Is made by uncoupling the cars from the locomotive while In motion, and throwing the cars on to the side track, by turning the switch, after the engine has passed it, upon the

A fugitive from justice.

In, old English law. The offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown. Anc. Inst. Eng.

In old English law. The offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown.

The reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw. Jacob.

The term “flyway” means the four administrative units used by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the States in the management of waterfowl populations.

The term “flywheel” means, in the case of an electricity grid application, a device used to store rotational kinetic energy.

The term “FMGEMS examination” means parts I and II of the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences or any successor examination recognized by the Secretary for

Women are excluded from ali civil and publlc charges or offices. Dig. 50, 17, 2; 1 Exchi 645 ; 6 Mees. & W. 216.

A married woman; a feme covert.

Jenk. Cent. 237. Women are not admissible to publlc offices.

that a *Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were fled for the State of Okla- homa et al.

A making known to the public, as by proclaiming or exposing to view; in the law of wills, a formal declaration by a testator at the time of signing his will that it is his last wil

Lending money at interest; the act of putting out money to us-uyy.

The Forum Judicium; a code of laws established in the seventh century for the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. Some of its principles and rules are found surviving in the modem jurispr

The body of laws granted to a city or town for its government and the administration of justice.

The title of a code of Spanish law promulgated by Alhonso the Learned, (el Sabto,) A. D. 1255. t was the precursor of the Partidas. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 67.

fagalio, 1. I In old English, law. The hunting of wild animals in forests, chases and parks; the liberty of hunting.

I. I. In old E^iglish law. To chase or hunt; to course a deer; to drive. Fugare et refugfare catalla: to drive cattle to and fro.

I. In old English law. A fugitive; a person who fled upon commission of a felony; a villein or bondman who left his lord without the intention of returning. Fugitivi: fugitives. In

In the constifutional provision that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state, this phrase mean

One by which the indorser orders the money to be paid to some particular person by name; it differs from a blank indorsement, which consists merely in the name of the indorser writ

Complete jurisdiction over a given subject-matter or class of actions (as, in equity) without any exceptions or reservations. Bank of Mississippi v. Duncan. 52 Miss. 740.

Life in fact and in law. See In Full Life.

I. I. A fine or mulct paid for theft.

I. I. in old English laic. A tribute or tax paid to a lord by his tenants, for the use of his oven; a baker's fee.

When a master ordinary in chancery made a report in pursuance of a decree or decretal order, the cause was again set down before the judge who made the decree or order, to be proce