Category: F

A free-surety, or free- pledge. Spelman. See FRANK-PLEDGE.

Impotence. Johnson.

In Spanish law. Fruits; products ; produce; grains ; profits. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

Office; duty; fulfillment of a definite end or set of ends by the correctadjustment of means. The occupation of an office. By the performance of its duties, theofficer is said to fill

A measure of length, being forty poles, or one-eighth of a mile.

A Celtic word, meaning a wood or forest

In English law. Lands given towards the maintenance, rebuilding, orrepairing of cathedral and other churches. Cowell; Blount.

In the civil law. The right, power, or capacity of making awill; called “factio act’ua.” Inst. 2, 10, 6.The right or capacity of taking by will; called “factio passiva.” Inst. 2, 10,

In a general sense, deficiency, want, or lack ; ineffectualness ; inefficiencyas measured by some legal standard; an unsuccessful attempt. White v. Pettijohn, 23N. C. 55; State v. Butler, 81 Minn. 103,

In old English law. A fold-course; the course (going or taking about)of a fold. Speluian. A sheep walk, or feed for sheep. 2 Vent 139.

In old English law. To counterfeit. Quia falsavit sit/ilium, because he counterfeited the seal. Bract fol. 2766.

Fr. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel’s stern.

Lat. Right; justice; the divine law. 3 Rl. Comm. 2; Calvin.

Bias; partiality; lenity; prejudice. See CHALLENGE.Favorabilia in lege sunt fiscus, dos, vita, libertas. Jenk. Cent. 94. Things favorablyconsidered in law are the treasury, dower, life, liberty.Favorabiliores rei, potius quam ac- tores, habentur.

Fictitious; pretended; supposititious; simulated.

L. Fr. A woman. In the phrase “baron ct feme” (q. v.) the word has the sense of “wife.”

The lessee of a fee-farm

A furlong. Co. Litt 56.

Fr. Iu old French and Canadian law. Hearth and home. A termimporting actual settlement upon land by a tenant.

The value of grain in the different counties of Scotland, fixed yearly by the respective sheriffs, in the month of February, with the assistance of juries.These regulate the prices of grain stipulated