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Category: F

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.

FUTURE RIGHT

right that will happen in the future and in accordance with provisions and stipulations of an existing contract.

FELONIOUS ASSAULT

the term given to a major attack on a person that will see the person who did the assault sentenced to jail time.

FORCED ENTRY

This term means to enter a person’s property by force and against the occupants wishes.

FREE EGRESS

This means to have the right to have some land or property whenever you wish to.

FILIBUSTER

a term used to try to continue ue debate so the matter will not be voted on.

FALSE AFFIDAVIT

This term is applied to perjury when lies are found in an affidavit.

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