Category: F

One from without; a foreigner ; a stranger. Calvin.

In old records. Grass or herbage growing on the edge or bank of dykes or ditches. Cowell.

That part of the land adjacent to the sea which is alternately coveredand left dry by the ordinary flow of the tides; i. e., by the medium line between thegreatest and least

In old English law. Exterior ; foreign; extraordinary. In feudal law, theterm “forinsic services” comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or therendition of extraordinary military services, and in this sense was opposed

Relating to matters of form; as, “formal defects;” inserted, added, orJoined pro forma. See PARTIES.

An exception; reservation; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term offrequent use In leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount.In another sense, the word la taken for any exaction.

A place or port of some strength ; a little fort. Old Nat Brev. 45.

Land given, assigned, or allotted to the finding of food or victuals forany person or persons; as in monasteries for the monks, etc. Cowell; Blount.

As applied to tracts of land, particularly townships, sections, quartersections, and other divisions according to the government survey, and also miningclaims, this term means that the exterior boundary lines are laid down

Brotherly; relating or belonging to a fraternity or an association ofpersons formed for mutual aid and benefit, but not for profit.

In Roman law. One who was set free from a state of bondage; anemancipated slave. The word is used in the same sense in the United States, respectingnegroes who were formerly slaves.

Fr. In French marine law. To freight a ship; to let it. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11,

In international law. That portion of the territory of any country whichlies close along the border line of another country, and so “fronts” or faces it. The termmeans something more than the

A chase. Blount.

In the civil and old English law. Land; land or ground generally; land.without considering its specific use; land, including buildings generally; a farm.

In old English law. Time to advise or take counsel, Jacob.FURTHER. In most of its uses in law, this term means additional, though occassionallyit may mean any. future, or other. See London

That you cause. Occurring in the phrases “scire facias,” (that you cause toknow,) “fieri facias,” (that you cause to be made,) etc.

In ecclesiastical law. A license or authority; a privilege granted by the ordinary to a man by favor and indulgenceto do that which by law he may not do; e. g., to

In French law. A Juridical fact. One of the factors or elements constitutive of an obligation.

In old English law. The tackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount.