Category: F

In old English law. The aggressor slain in combat Jacob.

Royal purveyors. 26 Edw. IIL c. 5.

The act of the buying or contracting for any merchandise or provision on its way to the market, with the intention of selling it again at ahigher price; or the dissuading persons

Forfeited. Bona fo- risfacta, forfeited goods. 1 RI. Comm. 299. A crime. Du Cange; Spelman.

In criminal law, and particularly with reference to homicide, thisterm means a deliberate and fixed intention to kill, whether directed against a particularperson or not. Mitchell v. State, 60 Ala. 33: Wilson

In old English law. Prolocutor ; paranymphus.

In old English law. A tournament or fighting with spears, and an appeal to fortune therein.

Founderous; out of repair, as a road. Cro. Car. 300.

A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents.

One who has killed a brother or sister; also the killing of a brother or sister.

Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportationof goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port. Rut the term is also used to denote thehire paid for

In the civil law. A temporary separation between husband and wife,caused by a quarrel or estrangement, but not amounting to a divorce, because notaccompanied with an intention to dissolve the marriage.

The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food.This term, in legal acceptation, is not confined to the produce of those trees whichin popular language

In the civil law. A fugitive ; a runaway slave. Dig. 11, 4; Cod. 6, 1. Seethe various definitions of this word in Dig. 21, 1, 17.

Lat. A thief. One who stole secretly or without force or weapons, as opposed to robber.

In old English law. A beating with sticks or clubs; one of the ancientkinds of punishment of malefactors. Bract fol. 1046, lib. 3. tr. 1, c. 6.

This name was formerly given to certain notes of some of the banks inthe state of Connecticut, which were made payable in two years after the close of thewar of 1812. Springfield

In old English law. A marriage gift coming from the father or brother ofthe bride.

In old English law. A jacket or close coat Blount

In English law. A quantity of land six ells square superficial measure.