Category: F

A dyke, ditch, or trench; a place inclosed by a ditch ; a moat; a canal.

In English law. This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 00, whichsecured to juries, upon the trial of indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing ageneral verdict of guilty or not

The privilege of sending certain matter through the public mails without payment of postage. In pursuance of a personal or official privilege. TLD Example: The franking privilege makes it easier for lawmakers to

Sanctuaries; seats of peace.

Fr. A brother. Frcre eyne, elder brother. Frcre puisne, younger brother. Rritt.c. 75.

Sax. Peace, security, or protection. This word occurs in many compoundterms used in Anglo-Saxon law.

Sax. In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Litt. 56.An arm of the sea, or a strait between two lands. Cowell.

A public officer or em- ploy

See FORNAGIUM ; FOUR.

A bow-net for catching fish. Pub. St Mass. 1SS2, p. 1201.

An exact copy, preserving all the marks of the original.

In American law. A process by which the effects of adebtor are attached in the hands of a third person. A term peculiar to the practice inVermont and Connecticut Otherwise termed “trustee

n. In English law. A greater species of market; a privileged market. It is anincorporeal hereditament, granted by royal patent, or established by prescriptionpresupposing a grant from the crown.In the earlier English

Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheepon his own ground. Blount

In Spanish law. Falsity; an alteration of the truth. Las Partidas. pt. 3, tit.26, 1. 1.Deception ; fraud. Id. pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 21.

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.

A day of fasting and penitence, or of mortification by religious abstinence.See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 100, et seq.

In feudal law. Fidelity; allegiance to the feudal lord of the manor; thefeudal obligation resting upon the tenant or vassal by which he was bound to he faithfuland true to bis lord,

L. Fr. Faithful. See FEAL.

v. In old Scotch law. To defend or protect by formalities. To “fence a court”was to open it in due form, and interdict all manner of persons from disturbing theirproceedings. This was