Category: F

Sax. In Anglo-Saxon law. The military array or land force of the wholecountry. Contribution to the f.vrd was one of the Imposts forming the trinoda nccessitas.(Also spelled “ferd” and “fird.”)

The face of an instrument is that which is shown by the mere language employed,without any explanation, modification, or addition from extrinsic facts or evidence.Thus, if the express terms of the paper

Lat. In old English law.A deed ; a person’s act and deed : anything stated or made certain ; a sealedinstrument; a deed of conveyance.A fact; a circumstance; particularly a fact In

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Lat. In old practice. A file; i. e., a thread or wire on which papers werestrung, that being the ancient method of filing.An imaginary thread or line passing through the middle of

In old English law. The king’s fines. Fines formerly payable to theking for any contempt or offense, as where one committed any trespass, or falselydenied his own deed, or did anything In

In old records. A place In monasteries, and elsewhere, where the poorwere received and supplied with food. Spelman. Ilence the word “infirmary.”

In mining law. A vein or lode of mineralized matter filling a preexistingfissure or crack in the earth’s crust extending across the strata and generallj- extending indefinitely downward. See Crocker v. Mauley,