Category: F

A fine or mulct paid for theft.Furiosi nulla voluntas est. A madman has no will. Dig. 50, 17, 40; Broom, Max. 314.

See ESTATE.

(Lat. I do that you may do.) A species of contract in the civil law(being one of the innominate contracts) which occurs when I agree with a man to dohis work for

In Saxon law. Malice; open and deadly hostility ; deadly feud. The worddesignated the enmity between the family of a murdered man and that of his murderer,which was recognized, among the Teutonic

That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Faicidian law,was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth.

In old English law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land.Cowell.

In Roman law. An action for the partition of the aggregatesuccession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hacredcs. It was also applicableto enforce a contribution towards the necessary expenses incurred on

An unlawful game of cards, In which all the other players play against thebanker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and bedealt from the

In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town adjoiningthe principal city; a suburb. See City Council of Lafayette v. Hollaud, 18 La. 2S0.

In English law. A freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since every other

With a felonious intent; with the intention of committing a crime. Anindispensable word in modern indictments for felony, as felon ice was in the Latinforms. 4 Bl. Comm. 307; State v. Jesse.

An officer of the court of wards, appointed by the master of that court,under 32 Hen. VIII. c. 26, whose business if was to be present with the escheator inevery county at

A term denoting, apparently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotscti.

A feast or festival. Festum stultorum, the feast of fools.

L. Fr. To pledge one’s faith. Kelham.

In Boman law. An early form of mortgage or pledge, in which both thetitle and possession of the property were passed to the creditor by a formal act of sale,(properly with the

In old English practice. To file. Townsh. PI. 07.

One who discovers and takes possession of another’s personal property,which was then lost. Kincaid v. Eaton, 98 Mass. 139. 93 Am. Dec. 142.A searcher employed to discover goods imported or exported without

Sax. In old English law. Exemption from military service. Spelman.

Of the most superior or excellent gnule or kind; belonging to the heador chief or numerically precedent of several classes into which the general subject is divided.