Category: F

A check drawn upon a banker by a person who has no funds at thebanker’s and knows that such is the case.

A section of a building between horizontal planes. Lowell v. Strahan. 145Mass. 1. 12 X. E. 401. 1 Am. St. Rep. 422.A term used metaphorically, in parliamentary practice, to denote the exclusive

See FODDER.

In Saxon law. Land of the folk or people. Land belonging to the peopleor the public.Folc-land was the property of the community. It might be occupied in common, orpossessed in severalty; and,

Fr. In French law. A tribunal. Lc for intcricur, the interior forum; the tribunal ofconscience. Poth. Obi. pt. 1, c. 1,

In North Carolina, this is an invasion of the rights of anotherwith respect to his personal property, of the same character, or under the samecircumstances, which would constitute a “forcible entry and

is used in Scotch law as aforesaid is in English, and sometimes, in aplural form, foresaids. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Forsaidis occurs in old Scotch records.”The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis.” 1 Pitc.

In the civil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1Kent, Comm. 530.

1. A model or skeleton of an instrument to be used in a judicial proceeding,containing the principal necessary matters, the proper technical terms or phrases, andwhatever else is necessary to make it

In Spanish law. An oven. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit 32, 1. 18.

Lat. Stronger. A term applied, in the law of evidence, to that species ofpresumption, arising from facts shown in evidence, which Is strong enough to shift theburden of proof to the opposite

A small ditch. Cowell.

Lat. A breaking; division; fraction; a portion of a thing less than the whole.

In old English law. A wood or wood-ground where ash-trees grow. Co. Litt. 46.

1. Unconstrained; having power to follow the dictates of his own will. Notsubject to the dominion of another. Not compelled to involuntary servitude. Used in thissense as opposed to “slave.”2. Not bound

Immediate; recent; following without any material interval.

An immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 173.

In Spanish law. A law; a code.A general usage or custom of a province, having the force of law. Strother v. Lucas,12 I’et. 440, 0 L. Ed. 1137. Ir contra fuero, to

The law which determines the constitution of government in astate, and prescribes and regulates the manner of Its exercise; the organic law of astate; the constitution.

This term includes that which furnishes, or with which anything is furnished or supplied; whatever must be supplied to a house, a room, or the like, to make it habitable, convenient, or