Category: F

n. In English law. A greater species of market; a privileged market. It is anincorporeal hereditament, granted by royal patent, or established by prescriptionpresupposing a grant from the crown.In the earlier English

Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheepon his own ground. Blount

In Spanish law. Falsity; an alteration of the truth. Las Partidas. pt. 3, tit.26, 1. 1.Deception ; fraud. Id. pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21.

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.

A day of fasting and penitence, or of mortification by religious abstinence.See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 100, et seq.

In feudal law. Fidelity; allegiance to the feudal lord of the manor; thefeudal obligation resting upon the tenant or vassal by which he was bound to he faithfuland true to bis lord,

L. Fr. Faithful. See FEAL.

v. In old Scotch law. To defend or protect by formalities. To “fence a court”was to open it in due form, and interdict all manner of persons from disturbing theirproceedings. This was

In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or afeoffment made. Bract, fols. 176, 446.

Beverages produced by, or which have undergone, a process of alcoholic fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but not spirituous or distilled

The feudal system; the aggregate of feudal principles and usages.

An assumption or supposition of law that something which is or may befalse is true, or that a state of facts exists-which has never really taken place. New Hampshire Strafford Bank v.

In Spanish law. A sequestrator ; a person in whose hands a thing in dispute isjudicially deposited; a receiver. Las Par- tidas, pt. 3, tit. 9, 1. 1.

Lat. A son ; a child.A distinction was sometimes made, in the civil law, between “filii” and “liberi;” thelatter word including grandchildren, (nepotcs,) the former not. Inst. 1, 14, 5. But,according to

An old writ that lay for the release of oneimprisoned for a redisseisiti. on payment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222.

In old English law. The contract of lease or letting; also the rent (or farm)reserved upon a lease of lands, which was frequently payable in provisions, butsometimes in money, in which latter

A dam or wear In a river for taking fish. Cowell.

A case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act.as an assault to remove a man from impending danger.

Flood-mark, high-water mark. The mark which the sea. at flowingwater and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount.

Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell.