Category: F

Ample; complete; perfect; mature ; not wanting in any essential quality.Mobile School Com’rs v. Putnam, 44 Ala. 537; Reed v. Hazleton, 37 Kan. 321, 15 Pac.177; Quinn v. Donovan, 85 111. 195.

In old English law. A fork. A gallows or gibbet. Bract fol. 56.

In Scotch law. A debt which is created, but which will not becomedue till a future day. 1 Bell, Comm. 315.

(Lat. I do that you may give.) A species of contract in the civil law(being one of the innominate contracts) which occurs when a man agrees to performanything for a price either

Approved men who were strong-armed; habentes homines or richmen, men of substance; pledges or bondsmen, who, by Saxon custom, were bound toanswer for each other’s good behavior. Cowell ; Du Cange.

In Roman law. A law on the subject of testamentary disposition,enacted by the people in the year of Rome 714, on the proposition of the tribuneFalcidius. By this law, the testator’s right

Land plowed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time aftersuccessive crops.

In Roman law. An intermediate person who purchased theaggregate inheritance when sold per ecs et lihram, In the process of making a will underthe Twelve Tables. This purchaser was merely a man

1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or years, althoughit he hut of a small house and land, is called “farmer.” This word implies nomystery,

An idiot or fool. Bract, fol. 4206.Foolish; absurd; indiscreet; or ill considered. Fatuum judicium, a foolish judgment orverdict Applied to the verdict of a jury which, though false, was not criminally so,

1. A freehold estate in lands, held of a superior lord, as a reward for services,and on condition of rendering some service in return for it. The trite meaning of theword “fee”

Malignant; malicious; done with intent to commit a crime; having thegrade or quality of a felony. People v. Moore, 37 Hun (N. Y.) 93; Aikman v. Com., 18 S.W. 938, 13 Ky.

The customs of feuds. The name of a compilation of feudal laws and customs made at Milanin the twelfth century. It is the most ancient work on the subject, and was alwaysregarded,

A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell.FERDFARE. Sax. A summons to serve in the army. An acquittance from going intothe army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47,

Earnest given to servants when hired or retained. The same as arlcs-pcnny. Cowell.

An abbreviation for fieri facias, (which see.)

Lat. Faith; honesty; confidence ; trust; veracity ; honor. Occurring In thephrases “bona fides,” (good faith,) “mala fides,” (bad faith,) and “uberrima fides,” (theutmost or most abundant good faith.)Fides est obligatio conscientiae

An officer of the superior courts at Westminster, whose duty it was to filethe writs on which he made process. There were fourteen filacers, and it was their dutyto make out all

To discover; to determine; to ascertain and declare. To announce a conclusion,as the result of judicial investigation, ui>on a disputed fact or state of facts; as ajury are said to “find a

Sax. A preparation to go into the army. Leg. lien. I.