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.

Vagabonds. Blount.

In the law of evidence. Impressions made upon earth, snow, orother surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of thefeet. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 204.

The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recoverpossession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases doesnot involve title, but is confined to the

In the civil law. Belonging to or connected with a court; forensic.Forcnsis homo, an advocate; a pleader of causes; one who practices in court. Calvin.In old Scotch law. A strange man or

In old records. A herd- land, headland, or foreland. Cowell.

Land in the diocese of Hereford, which had a peculiar customattached to it, but which has been long since disused, although the name is retained.But. Surv. 56.

Lat A brothel; fornication.

In old English law. A fortified place; a castle; a bulwark. Cowell; 11 Hen. VII. c. IS.