Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

/., Fabricate. To forge; coin; create. falsely.

Lands given for the maintenance of churches.

/. To do, make, act, cause. Facias: you cause. Faciendo: doing, paying. Facio ut des: I do that you may give; facio ut facias, I do that you may do; v. Do. Facit: he does, he acts.

An agent employed to buy and sell goods on commission in his own name, intrusted with their possession and control.

Attaching the goods of a debtor in the hands of a third party, v. Attachment, 3. Factum a judice quod ad of Scium ejus non pertinet ratum which'

pi. facta, I. A thing done; a deed; a fact. De facto: in fact.

Court of. v. Court, 86.

Failure of a party pleading a record to prodace it when required.

Feigned action, t. Action. Faint pleading: false or collusory pleading, to the injury of a third person.

fere, fr. To make; to do. Faisant, feasant: doing. Fait: a thing done; a deed, act, fact. Fair k sgavoir: to make to know. Faitours,/r. Evil-doers; idle vagabonds.

/. To mow, cut. Falcatura: a day's mowing.

Foldage; the privilege of getting up a movable sheepfold, to manure the laud.

cum de corpore constat, I. False description does no harm, when it is clear as to the [thing or] person. Falsa grammatica non vitiat chartam: bad grammar does not vitiate a deed.

Any unlawful restraint of the person. False judgment: an Eng Ush writ issuing from one of the superior courts to correct error in a court not of record; v. Court, 39. False pretenc

In equity practice, to disprove an item in an account.

A writ which lay against a sheriff for a false return of writs.

falsus in omnibus, I. False in one, false in all.

/. Character; fame; reputation.

/. Libellous books; libels.

1. The rent of land leased; anciently, provisions; white farm: if money. 2. A term of years in lands.

I. Right, justice; the divine law. Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit, /. He who flies from judgment confesses his guilt.

fr. Not; no. A step.

I., Faqaes, fr. Easter. Fateat universis per praesentes, presents.

/. Headlands enclosing an arm of the sea.

I. A favorer; supporter; abettor.

fausse,/A False; counterfeit. Fauxer, faucher: to forge.

quam actores, habentur, I. The defendants are held to be favored rather than the plaintiffs. Faithful; Pealte: fealty. to perform due obedience and service. The a ceremony performe

Marine interest; a red-hot iron, either by blindfold and bare-: a fermor. Firma spiritual living, due an- Fisk, se.. the revenue;; which, when thrown symbol of property.

/a A doing, a making. Feasor: doing.

/. Such priyate property as was or slave in the Roman law. Paraphernalia.

1. A freehold estate held of, and granted by, the condition of performing some service in originally granted as a reward. 3. An estate land; an estate granted to a man and his heir

An issue produced in a pretended purpose of trying a single question of fact. formerly frequently directed out of the Court rested on a fictitious wager. Feigned action

I., Felawe. A companion or friend, nary for the good behavior of the others, v.

1. An offence for which the criminal A serious offence; one punishable with death

femme, fr. A woman. Feme covert tected) married. Feme sole: a spinster.

Feodum, /. A fee. v. Feudnm, Fee. farm.

I. To enfeoff. Feoffamentum: a tus: a feoffee. Feoffator: a feoffor. Feoifavit

He in whom the legal estate beneficial owner being the cestui que use.

1. The conveyance of a fee by livery deed or charter in which such was oath of fealty was every tenant, except a doer. Feasant: a superior lord, on return for it. It was of inherit

ferme, sax. Provisions, rent; a manor; a farm; a lease on rent, v. Farm.

I. (Of a wild nature.) A term applied to animals not -usually tamed, as distinguished from those domitae naturae, domestic.

sax. A summoning to military service; ferdwite, an acquittance therefrom, by fine; ferdsoone: exemption therefrom.

;. A vreek day; a holiday; a fair. Ferme,//. v. Feorme^ Farm. Fesaunt,/r. Doing. Fesour: a doer; v. J'fl'?.S(y«;, etc. Festiuatio justitise est noveroa iufortunii, /. Hurrying just

I. Appendant, appurtenant. nances. Pesoher,/;-. To fish. Pescherie: fishery.

A surety; frank -pledge, v. Faesthu/men. Festingpeiiny: earnest given to servants when hired.

I. A speedy remedy.

fr. Done, made; v. Fait. Fet assavoir: a thing to be kuown; v. Fleta.

fr. A hearth, fireplace. Feu, few, sc.: a fee.

Having the quality of a feud; held of another, as opposed to allodial. Feudal system: the system of ^e/s.

/. k fief, feud, fee; y.Fee. Feudum antiquum: an ancient fee, one which hath descended to a man from his ancestors, as distinguished from feudum novum, a fee acquired by the man hi

so. The proprietor; the owner of the fee.

/. (Let it be done.) A short order or warrant. Fiat in bankruptcy: an order of the Lord Chancellor that a commission in bankruptcy should issue; v. Commission, 2. Fiat justitia, ru

/. A fiction. Fiotio cedit veritati: a fiction yields to truth. Fictio juris: a fiction of law. Fictio legis inique operatur alieni damnum vel injuriam: a legal fiction should not

I. The civil law expression for trusts created by last will.

/. Fidelity; fealty.

I. Good faith; trust; honesty. Fides servanda est: faith must be kept.

Relating to a trust; founded upon confidence.

I. (That you cause to be made.) A writ of execution directing the sheriff to levy the amount of a judgment from the lands and goods of the defendant; it is usually enforced against

A tax or aid anciently imposed on cities and towns in England of one fifteenth of their valued personal property.

sa.v. A fine for a quarrel or disturbance.

iilizers. (From Filace,/r., a file.) Officers in the C. P. and other supei-ior courts ^ho fled and issued writs.

Slle, fr. A daughter.

1. The relation of a son to his father. 2. The adjudging a bastard to be the cliild of some man.

/. A son. Filius est notnen naturae, sed hsres est nomen juris; son is the name of nature, but Aeir is the name in law. Filius mulieratus: a mulier. Filius nullius (the child of fi

I. (The thread of the water.) The water line or edge; the middle line of a stream. Filum viae: the middle line of a street. Pin,^. End. En fin, al fine: at last, at the end.

Complete, finishing, as opposed to interlocutory, v. Decree, Process. Final appeal court; v. Court, 87.

1. A sum of money paid by an offender as punishment. 2. A price paid for a privilege. 3. Fine for alienation: a price paid the lord by the tenant in chivalry for permission to alie

/r. Absolute necessity.

I. An end, limit

v. Bote. Fire ordeal: trial by taking a piece in the hand or by stepping foot over nine red-hot ploughshares.

/. A farm, rent; t. Farm. Firmarius alba: white rent.

The first year's profits of a ciently to the Pope.

Whale, porpoise, or sturgeon ashore, belonged to the King.

I. A staff; a wand delivered as a

fr. Son; a son.

A law writer, tempo Henry Abridgment of the year-books and of the [F. N. B.], a treatise on the writs then brevium, Natura brevium.

/. A final concord; Stjine of lands.

Testing coin by a jury of the Goldsmiths' Company.

A chattel so fixed or fastened to to become real property.

t. During actual war. the heat of the offence, in the very act.

Flightwite. 1. A fine paid by 2. A discharge from amerciaments when came to the King's peace of his own accord. Fleet A prison in London; formerly of and the C. P.

sax. An outlaw, a fugitive. a fugitive. Flemeneswite: a fine imposed

A treatise on the law founded chiefly posed to have been written tempo Edward lawyer at that time confined in the Fleet is a small French tract entitled Fet assavoir.

am. A certificate authorizing the i Flotsam. Goods floating on the water, lost V^am: goods thrown from the ship. ^Buoyed.

A leaf. A page containing seventy-two, ninety ■words; in America, usually one hundred.

Violently or session or keeping lands or tenements. Also, the civil action therefor.

The process of barring the equity a mortgagor; forfeiting the mortgagee's title.

v. Attachment. Foreign Foreign bill: a bill of exchange drawn or

To expel from court; to deprive of

A waste tract' of land, belonging to for wild beasts of forest, chase, and wai Tcu, laws and courts of its own. Forest courts

To obstruct a highway. Forestall buy up provisions on the way to a market, a higher price; a conspiracy to enhance the

A small money rent; a quit-rent.

The fraudulent making or alteration ment to the prejudice of another's right.

/. Abroad; without; out of doors.

/. To forfeit. Forisfactura: a

Portioned off; provided for.

;., Perjurer, /r. To forswear;

I. v. In. Forma non adnullatio actus: where due form is not of the act is inferred.

/. Formed writs, v. Writ.

v. Action.