Category: F

Money paid by tenants In lieu of a herlot. It was often applied to the bestchattel, as distinguished from heriot, the best beast. Cowell.

In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 200.

The nearest approach to a system of international law known to theancient world. It was a branch of Boman jurisprudence, concerned with embassies, declarationsof war, and treaties of peace. It received this

One who has committed felony; one convicted of felony. See, What Is a Felony Charge? See, e.g., How to Get Small Business Grants for Felons

Belonging to a fee or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal.

Wild beasts.

A liberty to have a boat upon a river for the transportation of men, horses,and carriages with their contents, for a reasonable toll. The term is also used to designatethe place where

L. Lat. A feud, fief, or fee. A right of using and enjoying forever the landsof another, which the lord grants on condition that the tenant shall render fealty,military duty, and other

See FIDE-JUSSOB.

(That you cause to be made.) In practice. A writ of executioncommanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a judgment from the goodsand chattels of the judgment debtor.

Definitive; terminating; completed ; last. In Its use in jurisprudence, thisword is generally contrasted with “interlocutory.” Johnson v. New York, 48 Hun, 020, 1N. Y. Supp. 254; Garrison v. Dougherty, 18 S.

An ending; death, as the end of life. Blount; Cowell.

In old records. A farm.Firmior et potentior est operatio le- gis quam dispositio hominis. The operation ofthe law is firmer and more powerful [or efficacious] than the disposition of man. Co.Litt. 102a.

In medical jurisprudence. An attack or spasm of muscular convulsions generally attended with loss of self-control and of consciousness; particularly, such attacks occurring in epilepsy. In a more general sense, the period

A place where the tide flows; a creek, or inlet of water; a company of shipsor navy ; a prison in Loudon, (so called from a river or ditch formerly in its

This term has acquired a definite and specific meaning in law. Itcommonly imports raising and sotting back water on another’s land, by a dam placedacross a stream or water-course which is the

Lat. In the civil law. Interest on money; the lending of money on interest

1. A leaf. In the ancient lawbooks it was the custom to number the leaves,instead of the pages; hence a folio would include both sides of the leaf, or two pages.The references

L. Fr. To bar out; to preclude; hence, to estop.

A premium for a lease