Category: F

A name for the goods which float upon the sea when castoverboard for the safety of the ship, or when a ship is sunk. Distinguished from “jetsam”and “ligan.” Bract, lib. 2, c.

A married woman; a feme covert.Fceminse ab omnibus officiis civllibus vel publicis remotoe sunt. Women areexcluded from all civil and public charges or offices. Dig. 50, 17, 2; 1 Exch. 645 ;

Menial servants; followers. Bract.

In old records. A fore- balk ; a balk (that is, an unplowed piece of land) lying forward or next the highway. Cowell.

A process in chancery by which all further right existing in a mortgagor to redeem the estate is defeated and lost to him, and the estate becomes the absolute property of the

In old English law. A certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pastures,privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest andabide in the safe protection of the

Lat. Abroad ; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic.

The conditions, in regard to method, order, arrangement use oftechnical expressions, performance of specific acts, etc., which are required by the lawIn the making of contracts or conveyances, or in the taking

A strip of land lying next to the highway.

In French law. Accidental; fortuitous. Cas fortuit, a fortuitous event Fortuitment, accidentally; by chance.

The remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also the jointure of a wife. Jacob.

Arable land. Mon. Angl.

In old English law. “A corporation is an investing of the people of aplace with the local government thereof, and therefore their laws shall bind strangers;but a fraternity is some people of

The state of being free; liberty; self-determination; absence of restraint;the opposite of slavery.The power of acting, in the character of a moral personality, according to thedictates of the will, without other check,

In old English law. The freight of a ship; freight money.Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. One who had the usufruct of a thing; i. e., theuse of the fruits, profits, or increase, as of land or animals. Inst. 2, 1, 36, 38.

Lat. He has made flight; he fled. A clause inserted In an inquisition,in old English law, meaning that a person indicted for treason or felony had fled. Theeffect of this is to

Money expended in procuring the interment of a corpse.

In criminal law, furthering, helping forward, promotion, or advancementof a criminal project or conspiracy. Powers v. Comm., 114 Ky. 237, 70 S. W. 652.

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