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Category: F

Fender Bender

When two or more vehicles are involved in a low-impact collision with minimal damage.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION

a guarantee of the1st and 14th amendment where a person can worship as they please.

FLOATING SECURITY

This term applies to the fair and equitable lien for a going concern that serves as a temporary security.

FRAME-UP

the term given to a plot intended to incriminate an innocent person in a crime.

FACE OF JUDGMENT

the term that is given to the amount of money that is granted by a judgement without any interest.

FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY

the term that gives the right of people to gather together to discuss issues that are of public importance.

FIDUCIARY CAPACITY

This applies to a person serving to handle money and property to benefit another party, such as the attorney, broker, guardian etc.  TLD Example: The executor of the estate served in a

FALSE PRETENSES

This term applies to the premeditated and calculated act that misrepresents the facts or a situation in order to defraud.

FETAL MURDER

the attack on a woman who is pregnant and the baby that is at least 6 months of gestation dies.

FUTURE EARNINGS

This term is applied to the earnings an injured would have made if he had not have been injured.

FRONTAGE

This term applies to the amount of land that faces the street or the highway.

FREE ENTRY

This means that you have the right to enter on and travel on land as often as you want to.

FOOD AND DRUG ACT

A federal law that governs the interstate commerce of drugs, cosmetics and food.

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