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A bow-net for catching fish. Pub. St Mass. 1SS2, p. 1201.

In old European law. A contract or formal agreement; but particularly usedin the Lombardic and Vislgothic laws to denote a marriage contract or a will.

1. A commercial agent, employed by a principal to sell merchandise consigned to him for that purpose, for and in behalf of the principal, but usually in his own name, being intrusted

A fraudulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the deceptionof a third person.

In old English law. A flockor fold of sheep. Cowell.

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.

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.