Category: F

In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it 1 Kames, Eq.228.

Lat. Fame; character; reputation; report of common opinion.Fama, fides et oculus non patiuntur ludum. 3 Bulst. 220. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheatFama quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud

Money paid by tenants In lieu of a herlot. It was often applied to the bestchattel, as distinguished from heriot, the best beast. Cowell.

In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 200.

The nearest approach to a system of international law known to theancient world. It was a branch of Boman jurisprudence, concerned with embassies, declarationsof war, and treaties of peace. It received this

One who has committed felony; one convicted of felony. See, What Is a Felony Charge? See, e.g., How to Get Small Business Grants for Felons

Belonging to a fee or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal.

Wild beasts.

A liberty to have a boat upon a river for the transportation of men, horses,and carriages with their contents, for a reasonable toll. The term is also used to designatethe place where

L. Lat. A feud, fief, or fee. A right of using and enjoying forever the landsof another, which the lord grants on condition that the tenant shall render fealty,military duty, and other

See FIDE-JUSSOB.

(That you cause to be made.) In practice. A writ of executioncommanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a judgment from the goodsand chattels of the judgment debtor.

A final or conclusive agreement. In the process of “levying afine.” this was a final agreement entered by the litigating parties upon the record, bypermission of court, settling the title to the

In the civil law. Action for regulating boundaries. The name of ail action which lay betweenthose who had lands bordering on each other, to settle disputed boundaries. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

In old English law. An assurance of some privilege, by deed or charter.

A Norman word, meaning “son.” It is used In law and genealogy ; as Fitzlierbert,the son of Herbert; Fitzjamcs, the son of James ; Fitzroy, the son of the king. Itwas originally

The reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw. Jacob.

In Roman law. A servitude which consists in the right to conduct the rainwater,collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house orground of one’s neighbor. Mackeld. Rom.

In old records. Grass; herbage. 2 Mon. Angl. 9066; Cowell.

See FOLC-LAND; FOLC-GEMOTE.