Category: F

The gift of any corporeal hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310),operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its completion,that the seisen be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183), which might

In old records. A place In monasteries, where they received the poor,(hospicio cxcipicbant,) and gave them provisions, (fcrm, firma.) Spelman. Hence themodern infirmary, used iu the sense of a hospital.

A recompense for engaging in a feud, and the damages consequent, ithaving been the custom in ancient times for all the kindred to engage in their kinsman’squarrel. Jacob.

In the civil law this term corresponds nearly to our “cestuique trust.” It designates a person wTho has the real or beneficial interest in an estate orfund, the title or administration of

An officer elected, in England, by the owners of a regulated pastureto keep in order the fences, ditches, etc., on the land, to regulate the times duringwhich animals are to be admitted

A young mare; a female colt. An indictment charging the theft of a “Ally” isnot sustained by proof of the larceny of a “mare.” Lunsford v. State, 1 Tex. App. 448,28 Am.

To make or pay a fine. Bract. 100.

The right of a tenant to his lands and tenements. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The flscus or flsc. The revenue of the crown. Generally used ofthe personal estate of a rebel which has been forfeited to the crown. Bell.

In Roman law. The title of a book containing the forms of actions,published by Cneius Flavins. A. CJ. C. 440. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A coin originally made at Florence, now of the value of about two English shillings.

A mine. Co. Litt 6a.

A general assembly of tbe people, under the Saxons. See FOLC-GEMOTE.

Straw when the corn is threshed out. Cowell.

A butt or headland, jutting out upon other land. Cowell.

Foresaken; disavowed. 10 Edw. II. c. 1.

Lat Foreign; exterior; outside; extraordinary. Scrvitium fo- rinsccum,the payment of aid, sc-utage, and other extraordinary military services. Fo- rinsccummanerium, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside the bars or

Lat Form; the prescribed form of judicial proceedings.

In Spanish law. The place where tribunals hear and determine causes,

Lat. Strong. Fortis et sana, strong and sound; staunch aud strong; as a vessel. Townsh. PI. 227.