Category: F

Untrue; erroneous; deceitful; contrived or calculated to deceive aud injure.Unlawful. In law, this word means something more than untrue; it means somethingdesignedly untrue and deceitful, and implies an intention to perpetrate some

A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.

In Georgia, a “fast” bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunctionsuits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up forreview

A right in Scotland, similar to the right of turbary in England, for fuel, etc.

A field; in composition, wild. Blount.

In forest law. The fawning of deer; the fawning season. Spelman.

To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called “fcoffator,” andthe grantee or feoffee, “feoffatus.”

A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture orlease. Plowd. 195; Vicat. See FARM.

Pertaining to feuds or fees; relating to or growing out of the feudal systemor feudal law; having the quality of a feud, as distinguished from “allodial.”

In Roman law. A fiction; an assumption or supposition of the law.”Fictio” in the old Roman law was properly a term of pleading, and signified a falseaverment on the part of the

Fr. In Norman feudal law. A fief or fee held by the tenure ofknight-service; a knight’s fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 62.

In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground; a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 46; Sliep. Touch. 95.

An obsolete writ to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading.

A partnership; the group of persons constituting a partnership. The name ortitle under which the members of a partnership transact business.

An animal which Inhabits the water, breathes by means of gills, swims by theaid of fins, and is oviparous.

In French law. A crime which Is in actual process of perpetrationor which has just been committed. Code d’Instr. Crim. art. 41.

By this term Is meant that mass of lawful and valid claims againstthe corporation for the payment of which there is no money in the corporate treasuryspecifically designed, nor any taxation nor

Food for horses or cattle. In feudal law, the term also denoted a prerogativeof the prince to be provided with corn, etc., for his horses by his subjects in his wars.

In old Scotch law. Forethought; premeditated. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pL 1, p. 90

In the forest law. An aniereenient for not cutting out the ball or cutting off the claws of a dog’s feet, (expeditatinghim.) To be quit of footgeld is to have the privilege