Category: F

1. Confidence; credit; rellanca Thus, an act may be said to be done “on thefaith” of certain representations.2. Relief; credence; trust. Thus, the constitution provides that “full faith and credit”shall be given

In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt 56,

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.

Definitive; terminating; completed ; last. In Its use in jurisprudence, thisword is generally contrasted with “interlocutory.” Johnson v. New York, 48 Hun, 020, 1N. Y. Supp. 254; Garrison v. Dougherty, 18 S.

An ending; death, as the end of life. Blount; Cowell.

In old records. A farm.Firmior et potentior est operatio le- gis quam dispositio hominis. The operation ofthe law is firmer and more powerful [or efficacious] than the disposition of man. Co.Litt. 102a.

In medical jurisprudence. An attack or spasm of muscular convulsions generally attended with loss of self-control and of consciousness; particularly, such attacks occurring in epilepsy. In a more general sense, the period

A place where the tide flows; a creek, or inlet of water; a company of shipsor navy ; a prison in Loudon, (so called from a river or ditch formerly in its

This term has acquired a definite and specific meaning in law. Itcommonly imports raising and sotting back water on another’s land, by a dam placedacross a stream or water-course which is the

Lat. In the civil law. Interest on money; the lending of money on interest