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In England. Mutual benefit societies, supported by subscription of the members, the benefits being of various kinds, — the periodical division of assets, sick or funeral benefits,

A suit brought by a creditor in chancery against an executor or administrator, being really a suit by the executor or administrator, in the name of a creditor, against himself, in

See "Amicus Curiae."

Impotence.

I Fruit; produce. Fructus Industriales or iiidnstriae: industrial fruits, or fruits of industry, — those fruits of a thing, as of land, which are produced by the labor and industry

[from Anglo-Germ, fre, Sax. freo, free, and laschen, to let go.] In old European law. A freedman; one emancipated from bondage, {manumissus, libertus, libertinus.) Spelman, Qrabb's

or FRE0LIN6. A freeman bom. Jac. L. Diet; Spel. Gloss.

Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman. F R I SC U S ( Law Lat.; from Pr. fresche). In old English law. Recent or new. Fris

bargained-for plans for vacation pay, pay guarantees, pensions, welfare, and holidays.

Fresh; recent.

Fresh force, which see.

Sax. Peace, security or protection. This word occurs in many compound terms used in Anglo-Saxon law. —Frithborg. Frank-pledge. Cowell. —Frith-bote. A satisfaction or fine for a bre

Frank-pledge. Cowell.

A satisfaction or fine for a breach of the peace.

A satisfaction or fine for a breach of the peace.

The breaking of the peace. Cowell.

The year of jubilee, or of meeting for peace and friendship. Jacob.

The year of jubilee or of meeting for peace and friendship. Jac. L. D.

A guild hall. A company or fraternity for the maintenance of peace and security; a fine for breach of the peace. Jac. L. Diet.

Guildhall; a company or fraternity for the maintenance of peace and security; also a fine for breach of the peace. Jacob.

Guildhall; a company or fraternity fur the maintenance of peace and security ; also a fine for breach of the peace. Jacob.

A member of a company or fraternity. Blount.

Same as Frithsoken.

Surety of defense; jurisdiction of the peace; the franchise of preserving the peace. Cowell; Spelman. sacred, and therefore affording sanctuary to criminals. Wharton.

or FRITHSOKEN. The right to take a view of frank-pledge. Fleta. See Fbithsocne, which seems to be interchangeable. Cowell.

Power to preserve the peace.

Sacred ground, where fugitives might safely hide.

The stool of peace. A stool or chair placed in a church or cathedral, and which was the symbol and place of sanctuary to those who fled to it and reached it.

So palpably insufficient as to show lack of good faith, as a pleading, argument, motion, objection. See 53 N. Y. 497.

One which at first glance can be seen to be merely pretensive, setting up some ground which cannot be sustained by argument Dominion Nat. Bank v. Olympia Cotton Mills (O. Ct) 128 F

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.