Category: F

In the civil law. A ditch; a receptacle of water, made by hand. Dig. 43, 14,1, 5.In old English law. A ditch. A pit full of water, in which women committing felony

A form of socialism. See 1 Mill, Pol. Ec. 2G0.

L. Lat Free; a freeman; a Frank. Spelman.

In old English law. Freight. Quoad frectum navium suarum, as to the freight of his vessels. Blount

A free-surety, or free- pledge. Spelman. See FRANK-PLEDGE.

Impotence. Johnson.

In Spanish law. Fruits; products ; produce; grains ; profits. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

Office; duty; fulfillment of a definite end or set of ends by the correctadjustment of means. The occupation of an office. By the performance of its duties, theofficer is said to fill

A measure of length, being forty poles, or one-eighth of a mile.

A Celtic word, meaning a wood or forest

In old English law. The making or coining of money.

In fact; by an act; by the act or fact. Ipso facto, by the act itself; by themere effect of a fact, without anything superadded, or any proceeding upon it to give

In old English practice. An action was so called where the party bringing it had no title torecover, although the words of the writ were true; a false action was properly wherethe

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of settingup folds for sheep iu any fields within their manors, the better to manure them,and this not only with their own but

A counterfeiter. Townsh. PI. 200.

In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but Inthe Spanish settlements in America consisting of 6,400 square varas or yards.

In old English law. A faggot of wood.

Faithful. Tenants by knight service swore to their lords to he fcal and leal; i.e., faithful aud loyal.

In Saxon law. One liound for another by oath; a sworn brother. A friendbound in the decennary for the good behavior of another. One who took the place ofthe deceased. Thus, if

The killing of a woman. Wharton.