Category: F

In old Scotch law. To forfeit 1 How. State Tr. 927.

The fifth part of the conclusion of a fine. It includes the wholematter, reciting the names of the parties, day. year, and place, and before whom it wasacknowledged or levied. 2 Bl.

The offense of violently keeping possession of lands andtenements, with menaces, force, and arms, and without the authority of law. 4 Bl.Comm. 148; 4 Steph. Comm. 280.Forcible detainer may ensue upon a

Belonging to courts of justice.

To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing iu imitation of another thing,with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving anddefrauding by the use of tlie spurious article.

To forswear; to abjure; to abandon.

The fee taken by a lord of his tenant who was bound to bake in thelord’s common oven, (in furno domini,) or for a commission to use his own.

As soon as, by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, a thing may be done. Thus, when a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty-four hours. When a

In old English law. Fosse-work ; or the service of laboring, done by Inhabitants and adjoiningtenants, for the repair and maintenance of the ditches round a city or town, for which some

Such fowls as are preserved under the game laws in warrens.According to Manwood, these are partridges and pheasants. According to Coke, theyare partridges, rails, quails, woodcocks, pheasants, mallards, and herons. Co. Litt.

v. To send matter through the public mails free of postage, by a personal or official privilege.

In old English law. A liberty to hold courts and take up the fines forbeating and wounding. To be free from fines Cowell

r. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. Green v. State, 109Ind. 175. 9 X. E. 781; State v. Ah Sana, 14 Or. 347, 13 Pae. 303.Frequentia actns multnm operatur.The

Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman.

In old English law. The affording harbor and entertainment to any one.

In medical jurisprudence. One which prevents, obstructs, orinterferes with the due performance of its special functions by any organ of the body,without anatomical defect or abnormality In the organ itself. See Higbee

Leave of absence; especially. leave given to a military or naval officer,or soldier or seaman, to be absent from service for a certain time. Also the documentgranting leave of absence.

One of the fines Incurred for homicide.

In old European law. A contract or formal agreement; but particularly usedin the Lombardic and Vislgothic laws to denote a marriage contract or a will.

1. A commercial agent, employed by a principal to sell merchandise consigned to him for that purpose, for and in behalf of the principal, but usually in his own name, being intrusted