Category: F

Lat. Fate; a superhuman power ; an event or cause of loss, beyond humanforesight or means of prevention.

Among the ancient Itomans, that order of priests who discharged the dutiesof ambassadors. Subsequently their duties appear to have related more particularlyto the declaring war and peace. Calvin.; 1 Kent, Comm. 6.

Felony. The act or offense by which a vassal forfeited his fee. Spelman;Calvin. Per feloniam. with a criminal intention. Co. Litt. 391.Felonla, ex vi termini significat quod- libet capitale crimen felleo animo

See FEUDALSYSTEM

Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition. Animals which are by naturewild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latterbeing called “domitir natures.” Fleet v.

In old English law. Grand holidays, on which choirs wore caps. Jacob.Festinatio justitise est noverca infor- tunii. Hob. 97. Hasty justice Is the stepmother of misfortune.

An Indefinite expression for a small or limited number. In cases where exactdescription is required, the use of this word will not answer. Butts v. Stowe, 53 Vt. 003;Allen v. Kirwan, 159

Lat Fealty, (q. v.)Fidelitas. De nnllo tenemento, quod tenetur ad terminum, fit homagii; fit tamen indefidelitatis sacramentnm. Co.Litt. 070. Fealty. For no tenement which Is held for a term is there the

(I have caused to be made.) In practice. The name given to the returnmade by a sheriff or other officer to a writ of fieri facias, where he has collected thewhole, or

A final or conclusive agreement. In the process of “levying afine.” this was a final agreement entered by the litigating parties upon the record, bypermission of court, settling the title to the

In the civil law. Action for regulating boundaries. The name of ail action which lay betweenthose who had lands bordering on each other, to settle disputed boundaries. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

In old English law. An assurance of some privilege, by deed or charter.

A Norman word, meaning “son.” It is used In law and genealogy ; as Fitzlierbert,the son of Herbert; Fitzjamcs, the son of James ; Fitzroy, the son of the king. Itwas originally

The reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw. Jacob.

In Roman law. A servitude which consists in the right to conduct the rainwater,collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house orground of one’s neighbor. Mackeld. Rom.

In old records. Grass; herbage. 2 Mon. Angl. 9066; Cowell.

See FOLC-LAND; FOLC-GEMOTE.

In old English law. The aggressor slain in combat Jacob.

Royal purveyors. 26 Edw. IIL c. 5.

The act of the buying or contracting for any merchandise or provision on its way to the market, with the intention of selling it again at ahigher price; or the dissuading persons