Category: F

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

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.

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

In old English law. A liberty to hold courts and take up the fines forbeating and wounding. To be free from fines Cowell

r. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. Green v. State, 109Ind. 175. 9 X. E. 781; State v. Ah Sana, 14 Or. 347, 13 Pae. 303.Frequentia actns multnm operatur.The

Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman.

In old English law. The affording harbor and entertainment to any one.

In medical jurisprudence. One which prevents, obstructs, orinterferes with the due performance of its special functions by any organ of the body,without anatomical defect or abnormality In the organ itself. See Higbee

Leave of absence; especially. leave given to a military or naval officer,or soldier or seaman, to be absent from service for a certain time. Also the documentgranting leave of absence.

One of the fines Incurred for homicide.

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.

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

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

In old English law. A flockor fold of sheep. Cowell.

Untrue; erroneous; deceitful; contrived or calculated to deceive aud injure.Unlawful. In law, this word means something more than untrue; it means somethingdesignedly untrue and deceitful, and implies an intention to perpetrate some

A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.

In Georgia, a “fast” bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunctionsuits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up forreview

A right in Scotland, similar to the right of turbary in England, for fuel, etc.

A field; in composition, wild. Blount.

In forest law. The fawning of deer; the fawning season. Spelman.