Category: F

In Saxon law. A tax or Imposition, exacted for the repelling of enemies.

This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and,by a second transition, wages, reward, or fee. It was probably the original form fromwhich the words “feod,” “feudum,” “fief,” “feu,”

In old English law. A waste ground, or place where fern grows. Cowell.

An occasional early form of “feud” in the sense of private war or vengeance. Termes de la Ley. See FEUD.

In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property(usually by will) to a person, accompanied by a request or direction of the donor thatthe recipient will transfer the

In Spanish law. Sequestration. This is allowed in six cases by the Spanishlaw where the title to property is in dispute. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 3, 1. 1.

Lat. In old practice. A file; i. e., a thread or wire on which papers werestrung, that being the ancient method of filing.An imaginary thread or line passing through the middle of

In old English law. The king’s fines. Fines formerly payable to theking for any contempt or offense, as where one committed any trespass, or falselydenied his own deed, or did anything In

In old records. A place In monasteries, and elsewhere, where the poorwere received and supplied with food. Spelman. Ilence the word “infirmary.”

In mining law. A vein or lode of mineralized matter filling a preexistingfissure or crack in the earth’s crust extending across the strata and generallj- extending indefinitely downward. See Crocker v. Mauley,

A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been anoutlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley.The liberty to hold court and

1. Such things as by accident swim on the top of great rivers or the sea. Cowell.2. A commission paid to water bailiffs. Cun. Diet.

In international law. A treaty ; a league; a compact.

In English law. Land to which the sole right of folding the cattle ofothers is appurtenant. Sometimes it means merely such right of folding. The right offolding on another’s land, which is

One from without; a foreigner ; a stranger. Calvin.

In old records. Grass or herbage growing on the edge or bank of dykes or ditches. Cowell.

That part of the land adjacent to the sea which is alternately coveredand left dry by the ordinary flow of the tides; i. e., by the medium line between thegreatest and least

In old English law. Exterior ; foreign; extraordinary. In feudal law, theterm “forinsic services” comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or therendition of extraordinary military services, and in this sense was opposed

Relating to matters of form; as, “formal defects;” inserted, added, orJoined pro forma. See PARTIES.

An exception; reservation; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term offrequent use In leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount.In another sense, the word la taken for any exaction.