Category: F

1. A leaf. In the ancient lawbooks it was the custom to number the leaves,instead of the pages; hence a folio would include both sides of the leaf, or two pages.The references

L. Fr. To bar out; to preclude; hence, to estop.

A premium for a lease

To intercept or obstruct a passenger on the king’s highway. Cowell. Tobeset the way of a tenant so as to prevent his coming on the premises. 3 Bl. Comm.170. To intercept a

Lat To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of somecriminal or illegal act. To confiscate.To act beyond the law, i. e., to transgress or infringe the law; to

An action for which a set form of words is prescribed, which mustbe strictly adhered to. 10 Mod. 140, 141.

An attorney or advocate in a cause. Blount; Whishaw.

In English law. Persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes. and punishable as rogues and vagabonds or disorderly persons. 4 Bl. Comm. 62.

Based upon; arising from, growing out of, or resting upon; as in theexpressions “founded in fraud,” “founded on a consideration,” “founded on contract,”and the like. See In re Grant Shoe Co., 130

Fr. Expense; charges; costs. Frais d’un proems, costs of a suit.

A younger brother’s inheritance.

This word has had various meanings at different stages of history. In the Roman law, it denoted one who was either born free or emancipated and was the opposite of “slave.” In

An order of religious persons, of whom there were four principal branches,viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Franciscans ; (2) Augustines; (3) Dominicans, or BlackFriars; (4) White Friars, or Carmelites, from whom

In the civil law. Anything produced from vines, underwood, chalk-pits,stone-quarries. Dig. 50, 10, 77.Grains and leguminous vegetables. In a more restricted sense, any esculent growingin pods. Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Calvin.

One who flees; always used in law with the implication of a flight, evasion,or escape from some duty or penalty or from the consequences of a misdeed.

Lat. In the civil law. Fungible things. See that title.

Lat. Theft. The fraudulent appropriation to one’s self of the property ofanother, with an intention to commit theft without the consent of the owner. Fleta, 1. 1,c. 36; Bract, fol. 150; 3

In Scotch law. Easily persuaded ; easily imposed upon. Bell.

The college or society of advocates in Scotland.

A street peddler who disposes of worthless wares, or of any goods abovetheir value, by means of any false representation, trick, device, lottery, or game ofchance. Mills’ Ann. St Colo.