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FLEDWITE

A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been anoutlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley.The liberty to hold court and

FLOTAGES

1. Such things as by accident swim on the top of great rivers or the sea. Cowell.2. A commission paid to water bailiffs. Cun. Diet.

FOEDUS

In international law. A treaty ; a league; a compact.

FOLD-COURSE

In English law. Land to which the sole right of folding the cattle ofothers is appurtenant. Sometimes it means merely such right of folding. The right offolding on another’s land, which is

FORANEUS

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

FORDIKA

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

FORESHORE

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

FORINSIC

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

FORMAL

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

FORPRISE

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.

FORTLETT

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

FOSTERLAND

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.

FRACTIONAL

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

FRATERNAL

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

FREEDMAN

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.

FRETER

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

FRONTIER

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

FUNDUS

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

FURST AND FONDUNG

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

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