FABULA
In old European law. A contract or formal agreement; but particularly usedin the Lombardic and Vislgothic laws to denote a marriage contract or a will.
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In old European law. A contract or formal agreement; but particularly usedin the Lombardic and Vislgothic laws to denote a marriage contract or a will.
1. A commercial agent, employed by a principal to sell merchandise consigned to him for that purpose, for and in behalf of the principal, but usually in his own name, being intrusted
A fraudulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the deceptionof a third person.
In old English law. A flockor fold of sheep. Cowell.
Untrue; erroneous; deceitful; contrived or calculated to deceive aud injure.Unlawful. In law, this word means something more than untrue; it means somethingdesignedly untrue and deceitful, and implies an intention to perpetrate some
A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.
In Georgia, a “fast” bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunctionsuits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up forreview
A right in Scotland, similar to the right of turbary in England, for fuel, etc.
A field; in composition, wild. Blount.
In forest law. The fawning of deer; the fawning season. Spelman.
To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called “fcoffator,” andthe grantee or feoffee, “feoffatus.”
A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture orlease. Plowd. 195; Vicat. See FARM.
Pertaining to feuds or fees; relating to or growing out of the feudal systemor feudal law; having the quality of a feud, as distinguished from “allodial.”
In Roman law. A fiction; an assumption or supposition of the law.”Fictio” in the old Roman law was properly a term of pleading, and signified a falseaverment on the part of the
Fr. In Norman feudal law. A fief or fee held by the tenure ofknight-service; a knight’s fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 62.
In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground; a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 46; Sliep. Touch. 95.
An obsolete writ to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading.
A partnership; the group of persons constituting a partnership. The name ortitle under which the members of a partnership transact business.
An animal which Inhabits the water, breathes by means of gills, swims by theaid of fins, and is oviparous.
In French law. A crime which Is in actual process of perpetrationor which has just been committed. Code d’Instr. Crim. art. 41.