Category: F

In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or afeoffment made. Bract, fols. 176, 446.

Beverages produced by, or which have undergone, a process of alcoholic fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but not spirituous or distilled

The feudal system; the aggregate of feudal principles and usages.

An assumption or supposition of law that something which is or may befalse is true, or that a state of facts exists-which has never really taken place. New Hampshire Strafford Bank v.

In Spanish law. A sequestrator ; a person in whose hands a thing in dispute isjudicially deposited; a receiver. Las Par- tidas, pt. 3, tit. 9, 1. 1.

Lat. A son ; a child.A distinction was sometimes made, in the civil law, between “filii” and “liberi;” thelatter word including grandchildren, (nepotcs,) the former not. Inst. 1, 14, 5. But,according to

An old writ that lay for the release of oneimprisoned for a redisseisiti. on payment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222.

In old English law. The contract of lease or letting; also the rent (or farm)reserved upon a lease of lands, which was frequently payable in provisions, butsometimes in money, in which latter

A dam or wear In a river for taking fish. Cowell.

A case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act.as an assault to remove a man from impending danger.

Flood-mark, high-water mark. The mark which the sea. at flowingwater and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount.

Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell.

In Saxon law. Land of the folk or people. Land belonging to the peopleor the public.Folc-land was the property of the community. It might be occupied in common, orpossessed in severalty; and,

Fr. In French law. A tribunal. Lc for intcricur, the interior forum; the tribunal ofconscience. Poth. Obi. pt. 1, c. 1,

In North Carolina, this is an invasion of the rights of anotherwith respect to his personal property, of the same character, or under the samecircumstances, which would constitute a “forcible entry and

is used in Scotch law as aforesaid is in English, and sometimes, in aplural form, foresaids. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Forsaidis occurs in old Scotch records.”The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis.” 1 Pitc.

In the civil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1Kent, Comm. 530.

1. A model or skeleton of an instrument to be used in a judicial proceeding,containing the principal necessary matters, the proper technical terms or phrases, andwhatever else is necessary to make it

In Spanish law. An oven. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit 32, 1. 18.

Lat. Stronger. A term applied, in the law of evidence, to that species ofpresumption, arising from facts shown in evidence, which Is strong enough to shift theburden of proof to the opposite