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In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue.This term is wider in its scope than “perjury.” for the latter, as a technical term, includesthe idea

In old English forest law. The court of attachment in forests. or wood-mote court.

Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned bythe seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread forbaking. Also the

A freeman. Chart. Hen. IV. A free tenant. Spelman.

See FBANK.

In early times, in English law, this term was applied to every strangeror “outlandish” man. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 15.

In old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by which the lords orprincipal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants. Bract, l’ol. 1246.

Sax. In Saxon law. A chief seat, or mansion house. Cowell.

Ample; complete; perfect; mature ; not wanting in any essential quality.Mobile School Com’rs v. Putnam, 44 Ala. 537; Reed v. Hazleton, 37 Kan. 321, 15 Pac.177; Quinn v. Donovan, 85 111. 195.

In old English law. A fork. A gallows or gibbet. Bract fol. 56.

In Scotch law. A debt which is created, but which will not becomedue till a future day. 1 Bell, Comm. 315.

(Lat. I do that you may do.) A species of contract in the civil law(being one of the innominate contracts) which occurs when I agree with a man to dohis work for

In Saxon law. Malice; open and deadly hostility ; deadly feud. The worddesignated the enmity between the family of a murdered man and that of his murderer,which was recognized, among the Teutonic

That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Faicidian law,was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth.

In old English law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land.Cowell.

In Roman law. An action for the partition of the aggregatesuccession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hacredcs. It was also applicableto enforce a contribution towards the necessary expenses incurred on

An unlawful game of cards, In which all the other players play against thebanker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and bedealt from the

In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town adjoiningthe principal city; a suburb. See City Council of Lafayette v. Hollaud, 18 La. 2S0.

In English law. A freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since every other

With a felonious intent; with the intention of committing a crime. Anindispensable word in modern indictments for felony, as felon ice was in the Latinforms. 4 Bl. Comm. 307; State v. Jesse.