Category: F

Forfeited. Bona fo- risfacta, forfeited goods. 1 RI. Comm. 299. A crime. Du Cange; Spelman.

In criminal law, and particularly with reference to homicide, thisterm means a deliberate and fixed intention to kill, whether directed against a particularperson or not. Mitchell v. State, 60 Ala. 33: Wilson

In old English law. Prolocutor ; paranymphus.

In old English law. A tournament or fighting with spears, and an appeal to fortune therein.

Founderous; out of repair, as a road. Cro. Car. 300.

A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents.

One who has killed a brother or sister; also the killing of a brother or sister.

Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportationof goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port. Rut the term is also used to denote thehire paid for

In the civil law. A temporary separation between husband and wife,caused by a quarrel or estrangement, but not amounting to a divorce, because notaccompanied with an intention to dissolve the marriage.

The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food.This term, in legal acceptation, is not confined to the produce of those trees whichin popular language

In the civil law. A fugitive ; a runaway slave. Dig. 11, 4; Cod. 6, 1. Seethe various definitions of this word in Dig. 21, 1, 17.

Lat. A thief. One who stole secretly or without force or weapons, as opposed to robber.

In old English law. A beating with sticks or clubs; one of the ancientkinds of punishment of malefactors. Bract fol. 1046, lib. 3. tr. 1, c. 6.

In Scotch law. Pliancy of disposition. Bell.Facinns quoa inquinat sequat. Guilt makes equal those whom it stains.

In old English law. The portion brought by a wife to her husband,and which reverted to a widow, in case the heir of her deceased husband refused hisconsent to her second marriage;

In old English law. To mow. Falcare prata, to mow or cut grass in meadowslaid iu for hay. A customary service to the lord by his Inferior tenants.Jus falcandi, the right of

In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a controversy at law.

In Roman law. A house hold; a family. On the composition of tlie Romanfamily, see AGNATI; COGNATI; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law,

n. A certain amount of provisionreserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman.Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid In money, itwas called “blanclie firmc.”

One entirely destitute of reason; is Qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48.