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FOOT OF THE FINE

The fifth part of the conclusion of a fine. It includes the wholematter, reciting the names of the parties, day. year, and place, and before whom it wasacknowledged or levied. 2 Bl.

FORCIBLE DETAINER

The offense of violently keeping possession of lands andtenements, with menaces, force, and arms, and without the authority of law. 4 Bl.Comm. 148; 4 Steph. Comm. 280.Forcible detainer may ensue upon a

FORGE

To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing iu imitation of another thing,with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving anddefrauding by the use of tlie spurious article.

FORNAGIUM

The fee taken by a lord of his tenant who was bound to bake in thelord’s common oven, (in furno domini,) or for a commission to use his own.

FORTHWITH

As soon as, by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, a thing may be done. Thus, when a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty-four hours. When a

FOSSATORUM OPERATIO

In old English law. Fosse-work ; or the service of laboring, done by Inhabitants and adjoiningtenants, for the repair and maintenance of the ditches round a city or town, for which some

FOWLS OF WARREN

Such fowls as are preserved under the game laws in warrens.According to Manwood, these are partridges and pheasants. According to Coke, theyare partridges, rails, quails, woodcocks, pheasants, mallards, and herons. Co. Litt.

FRANK

v. To send matter through the public mails free of postage, by a personal or official privilege.

FRERE

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

FRITH

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

FRYTHE

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

FYKE

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

FABULA

In old European law. A contract or formal agreement; but particularly usedin the Lombardic and Vislgothic laws to denote a marriage contract or a will.

FACTOR

1. A commercial agent, employed by a principal to sell merchandise consigned to him for that purpose, for and in behalf of the principal, but usually in his own name, being intrusted

FAINT PLEADER

A fraudulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the deceptionof a third person.

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