Category: F

Sax. In old English law. A summoning forth to a military expedition,(i/idictio ad profevtionem militarcm.) Spelman.

In old English law. Liberty to scour and repair a mill-dam, and carry awaythe soil, etc. Blount.

To liquidate or render certain. To fasten a liability upon one. To transform apossible or contingent liability into a present and definite liability. Zimmerman v.Canfield. 42 Ohio St. 40S: Polk v. Minnehaha

In Saxon law. Land; a house; home.

Lat. A river; a public river ; flood; flood-tide.

In the civil law. The produce of animals, and the fruit of other property,which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property by virtue of his rightBowyer, Mod. Civil Law,

Fr. In French law. Goods and effects. Adams v. Akerlund, 108111. 632. 48 N. E. 454.

Power dynamically considered, that is, in motion or in action; constraining power, compulsion; strength directed to an end. Usually the word occurs in such connections as to show that unlawful or wrongful

Belonging to another nation or country; belonging or attached to anotherjurisdiction; made, done, or rendered in another state or jurisdiction; subject to anotherjurisdiction; operating or solvable in another territory; extrinsic; outside ;

In Scotch law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. Ersk. Inst 4, 4, 50; Hell.

A criminal. One who has forfeited his life by commission of a capital offense. Spelman.

A certain weight of above 70 lbs., mentioned in 51 Hen. III. Cowell.

In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue.This term is wider in its scope than “perjury.” for the latter, as a technical term, includesthe idea

In old English forest law. The court of attachment in forests. or wood-mote court.

Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned bythe seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread forbaking. Also the

A freeman. Chart. Hen. IV. A free tenant. Spelman.

See FBANK.

In early times, in English law, this term was applied to every strangeror “outlandish” man. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 15.

In old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by which the lords orprincipal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants. Bract, l’ol. 1246.

Sax. In Saxon law. A chief seat, or mansion house. Cowell.