Your Free Online Legal Dictionary • Featuring Black’s Law Dictionary, 2nd Ed.

Category: F

FORNICATION

Unlawful sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons.Further, if one of the persons be married and the other not, it is fornication on the partof the latter, though adultery for the former. In

FORTIA

Force. In old English law.Force used by an accessary, to enable the principal to commit a crime, as by binding orholding a person while another killed him, or by aiding or counseling

FOSSATUM

A dyke, ditch, or trench; a place inclosed by a ditch ; a moat; a canal.

FOX’S LIBEL ACT

In English law. This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 00, whichsecured to juries, upon the trial of indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing ageneral verdict of guilty or not

FRANKING PRIVILEGE

The privilege of sending certain matter through the public mails without payment of postage. In pursuance of a personal or official privilege. TLD Example: The franking privilege makes it easier for lawmakers to

FRERE

Fr. A brother. Frcre eyne, elder brother. Frcre puisne, younger brother. Rritt.c. 75.

FRITH

Sax. Peace, security, or protection. This word occurs in many compoundterms used in Anglo-Saxon law.

FRYTHE

Sax. In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Litt. 56.An arm of the sea, or a strait between two lands. Cowell.

FYKE

A bow-net for catching fish. Pub. St Mass. 1SS2, p. 1201.

FACSIMILE

An exact copy, preserving all the marks of the original.

FACTORIZING PROCESS

In American law. A process by which the effects of adebtor are attached in the hands of a third person. A term peculiar to the practice inVermont and Connecticut Otherwise termed “trustee

FAIR

n. In English law. A greater species of market; a privileged market. It is anincorporeal hereditament, granted by royal patent, or established by prescriptionpresupposing a grant from the crown.In the earlier English

FALDFEY

Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheepon his own ground. Blount

FALSEDAD

In Spanish law. Falsity; an alteration of the truth. Las Partidas. pt. 3, tit.26, 1. 1.Deception ; fraud. Id. pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21.

FARANDMAN

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.

FAST-DAY

A day of fasting and penitence, or of mortification by religious abstinence.See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 100, et seq.

Topic Archives:

Disclaimer

This site contains general legal information but does not constitute professional legal advice for your particular situation. The Law Dictionary is not a law firm, and this page does not create an attorney-client or legal adviser relationship. If you have specific questions, please consult a qualified attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.