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FAIT

L. Fr. Anything done. A deed; act; fact. A deed lawfully executed. Com. Dig. Feme de fait. A wife de facto.

FALDSTOOL

A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels athis coronation. Wharton.

FALSING

In Scotch law. False making; forgery. “Falsing of evidentis.” 1 Pitc. Crirn. Tr. pt. 1, p. 85.Making or proving false.

FARDELLA

In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22,

FASTI

In Roman law. Lawful. Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice couldlawfully be administered by the praetor. See DIES FASTI.Fatetur facinus qni judicium fugit. 3 Inst. 14. He who flees judgment

FEASANCE

A doing; the doing of an act. See MALFEASANCE; MISFEASANCE; NONFEASANCE.A making; the making of an indenture, release, or obligation. Litt.

FELLOW

A companion ; one with whom we consort; one joined with another insome legal ntutun or relation; a member of a college or corporate body.

FENERATION

Usury; the gain of interest; the practice of increasing money by lending.

FEOFFMENT

The gift of any corporeal hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310),operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its completion,that the seisen be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183), which might

FERMORY

In old records. A place In monasteries, where they received the poor,(hospicio cxcipicbant,) and gave them provisions, (fcrm, firma.) Spelman. Hence themodern infirmary, used iu the sense of a hospital.

FEUDBOTE

A recompense for engaging in a feud, and the damages consequent, ithaving been the custom in ancient times for all the kindred to engage in their kinsman’squarrel. Jacob.

FIDEI-COMMISSARIUS

In the civil law this term corresponds nearly to our “cestuique trust.” It designates a person wTho has the real or beneficial interest in an estate orfund, the title or administration of

FIELD REEVE

An officer elected, in England, by the owners of a regulated pastureto keep in order the fences, ditches, etc., on the land, to regulate the times duringwhich animals are to be admitted

FILLY

A young mare; a female colt. An indictment charging the theft of a “Ally” isnot sustained by proof of the larceny of a “mare.” Lunsford v. State, 1 Tex. App. 448,28 Am.

FIRMARATIO

The right of a tenant to his lands and tenements. Cowell.

FISK

In Scotch law. The flscus or flsc. The revenue of the crown. Generally used ofthe personal estate of a rebel which has been forfeited to the crown. Bell.

FLAVIANUM JUS

In Roman law. The title of a book containing the forms of actions,published by Cneius Flavins. A. CJ. C. 440. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

FLORIN

A coin originally made at Florence, now of the value of about two English shillings.

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