FEODUM
This word (meaning a feud or fee) is the one most commonly used by theolder English law-writers, though its equivalent, “feudum,” is used generally by themore modern writers and by the feudal
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This word (meaning a feud or fee) is the one most commonly used by theolder English law-writers, though its equivalent, “feudum,” is used generally by themore modern writers and by the feudal
A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell.
Feuds or fees.
(Lat. “Let it be done.”) in English practice. A short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for
A fee, food, or feud.
The relation of a child to its parent: correlative to “paternity.”The judicial assignment of an illegitimate child to a designated man as its father.In the civil law. The descent of son or
An abolished writ for disannulling a line levied of lands in ancientdemesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg. Orig. 15.
A Scotch measure of capacity, containing two gallons and a pint. Spelman.
In Roman law. The treasury of the prince or emperor, as distinguished from”wrarium,” which was the treasury of the state. Spelman.The treasury or property of the state, as distinguished from the private
Lat Burning; raging; in actual perpetration.
(or circulating capital.) The capital which is consumed at eachoperation of production and reappears transformed into new products. At each sale ofthese products the capital is represented in cash, and it is
In old English law. Firewood. The right of taking wood for the fire. Flrebote.Cunningham.
In old Scotch law. To forfeit 1 How. State Tr. 927.
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.
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
Belonging to courts of justice.
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.
To forswear; to abjure; to abandon.
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.
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