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FLAGRANT NECESSITY

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

FLODE-MARK

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

FODERTORIUM

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

FOOT-PRINTS

In the law of evidence. Impressions made upon earth, snow, orother surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of thefeet. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 204.

FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER

The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recoverpossession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases doesnot involve title, but is confined to the

FORENSIS

In the civil law. Belonging to or connected with a court; forensic.Forcnsis homo, an advocate; a pleader of causes; one who practices in court. Calvin.In old Scotch law. A strange man or

FORHERDA

In old records. A herd- land, headland, or foreland. Cowell.

FORLER-LAND

Land in the diocese of Hereford, which had a peculiar customattached to it, but which has been long since disused, although the name is retained.But. Surv. 56.

FORTILITY

In old English law. A fortified place; a castle; a bulwark. Cowell; 11 Hen. VII. c. IS.

FR

A Latin abbreviation for “fragmen- turn,” a fragment, used in citations to theDigest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Oi- vilis of Justinian, the several extracts fromjuristic writings of which it is

FRANKLEYN

(spelled, also, “Francling” and “Franklin.”) A freeman; a freeholder; a gentleman. Blount; Cowell.

FREDUM

A fine paid for obtaining pardon when the peace had been broken. Spelman; Blount. A sum paid the magistrate for protection against the right of revenge.

FRESCA

In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood.

FRIVOLOUS

An answer or plea is called “frivolous” when it is clearly insufficient on its face, and does not controvert the material points of the opposite pleading, and is presumably interposed for mere

FUER

In old English law. Flight. It is of two kinds: (1) Fuer in fait, or in facto, wherea person does apparently and corporally flee; (2) fuer in lev, or in lege,when, being

FUNCTUS OFFICIO

Lat Having fulfilled the function, discharged the office, or accomplished the purpose, and therefore of no further force or authority. Applied to an officer whose term has expired, and who has consequently

FURNISH

To supply; provide; provide for use. Delp v. Brewing Co., 123 Pa. 42, 15Atl. 871; Wyatt v. Larimer & “W. Irr. Co., 1 Colo. App. 480. 29 Pac. 906. As used in

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