FALSUM
Lat. In the civil law. A false or forged tiling; a fraudulent simulation; afraudulent counterfeit or imitation, such as a forged signature or instrument. Alsofalsification, which may be either by falsehood, concealment
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Lat. In the civil law. A false or forged tiling; a fraudulent simulation; afraudulent counterfeit or imitation, such as a forged signature or instrument. Alsofalsification, which may be either by falsehood, concealment
A mill; a toll of meal or flour. Jacob; Spelman.
A whore. Du Fresne.
Certain established festivals or holidays in the ecclesiastical calendar. Thesedays were anciently used as the dates of legal instruments, and in England the quarterdays,for paying rent, are four feast-days. The terms of
A felon of himself; a suicide or murderer of himself. One whodeliberately and intentionally puts an end to his own life, or who commits some unlawful or malicious act which results in
The same as feud or fief.
A certain portion of the produce of the land due by the grantee to the lordaccording to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7.
In old pleading. An Iron mine. Townsh. PI. 273.
In Spanish law. Feud or fee. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 2.
In Roman law. A guarantor; one who becomes responsible for thepayment of another’s debt, by a stipulation which binds him to discharge it If the principaldebtor fails to do so. Mackeld. Rom.
Lat. To be made; to be done. See IN FIERI.
In French law. An exception or plea founded on law, which,without entering into the merits of the action, shows that the plaintiff has no right tobring it, either because the time during
Lat. An end; a fine; a boundary or terminus; a limit Also in L. Lat, a fine (q.v.)Finis est amicabilis compositio et finalis concordia ex concensu et concor- dia dominiregis vel justiciarum.
The doe season. Also a supplying with food. Cowell.
In the civil law. A pipe for conveying water. Dig. 8, 2, 18.
A metaphorical expression, used in connection with homicide done in self-defense, signifying the exhaustion of every possible means of escape, or of averting the assault, before killing the assailant.
In old English law. High-water mark; flood-mark. 1 And. SS, 89.
Lending money at interest ; the act of putting out money to usury.
In old English law. A freeman, who has no house or dwelling of his own,but is the follower or retainer of another, (heorthfacst,) for whom he performs certainpredial services.
A pirate; an outlaw; one banished.