Category: F

Lat. In old practice. A file; i. e., a thread or wire on which papers werestrung, that being the ancient method of filing.An imaginary thread or line passing through the middle of

In old English law. The king’s fines. Fines formerly payable to theking for any contempt or offense, as where one committed any trespass, or falselydenied his own deed, or did anything In

In old records. A place In monasteries, and elsewhere, where the poorwere received and supplied with food. Spelman. Ilence the word “infirmary.”

In mining law. A vein or lode of mineralized matter filling a preexistingfissure or crack in the earth’s crust extending across the strata and generallj- extending indefinitely downward. See Crocker v. Mauley,

A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been anoutlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley.The liberty to hold court and

1. Such things as by accident swim on the top of great rivers or the sea. Cowell.2. A commission paid to water bailiffs. Cun. Diet.

In international law. A treaty ; a league; a compact.

In English law. Land to which the sole right of folding the cattle ofothers is appurtenant. Sometimes it means merely such right of folding. The right offolding on another’s land, which is

One from without; a foreigner ; a stranger. Calvin.

In old records. Grass or herbage growing on the edge or bank of dykes or ditches. Cowell.

That part of the land adjacent to the sea which is alternately coveredand left dry by the ordinary flow of the tides; i. e., by the medium line between thegreatest and least

In old English law. Exterior ; foreign; extraordinary. In feudal law, theterm “forinsic services” comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or therendition of extraordinary military services, and in this sense was opposed

Relating to matters of form; as, “formal defects;” inserted, added, orJoined pro forma. See PARTIES.

An exception; reservation; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term offrequent use In leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount.In another sense, the word la taken for any exaction.

A place or port of some strength ; a little fort. Old Nat Brev. 45.

Land given, assigned, or allotted to the finding of food or victuals forany person or persons; as in monasteries for the monks, etc. Cowell; Blount.

As applied to tracts of land, particularly townships, sections, quartersections, and other divisions according to the government survey, and also miningclaims, this term means that the exterior boundary lines are laid down

In old English law. “A corporation is an investing of the people of aplace with the local government thereof, and therefore their laws shall bind strangers;but a fraternity is some people of

The state of being free; liberty; self-determination; absence of restraint;the opposite of slavery.The power of acting, in the character of a moral personality, according to thedictates of the will, without other check,

In old English law. The freight of a ship; freight money.Cowell.