Category: F

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

An offense against the public peace, or private wrong, committedby violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force, and arms,against the will of those entitled to the possession, and without

or medical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is “that sciencewhich teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes ofthe law; hence its limits are, on the one

In criminal law. The falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which, ifgenuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or tlie foundation of a legal liability. 2Bish. Crim.

See FOREJUDGE.