Category: F

In Scotch law. To forfeit ; to lose.

A duty or tribute payable to the king’s foresters. Cowell.

In old English law. Ranished.

In canon law. Canonical letters. Spelman.

Waterfalls. Camden, Brit

Accidental; undesigned; adventitious. Resulting from unavoidable physical causes.

The founding or building of a college or hospital. The incorporationor endowment of a college or hospital is the foundation ; and he who endows it withland or other property is the

Lat. The breaking or wreck of ships; the same as naufragium, (q. v.)

In old English law. Certain friars who wore white and black garments. Walsingham, 124.

An estate in land or other real property, of uncertain duration; that is,either of inheritance or which may possibly last for the life of the tenant at the least, (asdistinguished from a

Lat. A strait.

Lat. In the civil law. Fruit, fruits; produce; profit or increase; the organic productions of a thing.The right to the fruits of a thing belonging to another.The compensation which a man receives

In Scotch practice. To outlaw, by the sentence of a court; to outlaw fornon-appearance In a criminal case. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 350.

Movable goods which may be estimated and replaced accordingto weight, measure, and number. Things belonging to a class, which do not have to bedealt with in specie.Those things one specimen of which

In old English law. Stealthily ; by stealth. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38,

In Scotch law. Easily persuaded ; easily imposed upon. Bell.

The college or society of advocates in Scotland.

A street peddler who disposes of worthless wares, or of any goods abovetheir value, by means of any false representation, trick, device, lottery, or game ofchance. Mills’ Ann. St Colo.

In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it 1 Kames, Eq.228.

Lat. Fame; character; reputation; report of common opinion.Fama, fides et oculus non patiuntur ludum. 3 Bulst. 220. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheatFama quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud