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n. A certain amount of provisionreserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman.Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid In money, itwas called “blanclie firmc.”
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n. A certain amount of provisionreserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman.Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid In money, itwas called “blanclie firmc.”
One entirely destitute of reason; is Qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48.
In constitutional law. A term commonly used to express a league or compact between two or more states.In American law. Belonging to the general government or union of the states.Founded on or
Feloniously. Anciently an Indispensable word in indictments for felony,and classed by Lord Coke among those voces artis (words of art) which cannot be expressedby any periphrasis or circumlocution. 4 Coke, 39; Co.
Fidelity or fealty.Cowell. See FEALTY.
Ital. A kind of small vessel or boat. Mentioned in old Scotch law, andcalled “fercost.” Skene.
In old English law. A frank-pledge, or one who was surety for thegood behavior of another. Monasteries enjoyed the privilege of being “free from festingmen.”which means that they were “not bound for
A Latin abbreviation for “Frag- meuta,” designating the Digest or Pandects in theCor puis Juris Civilis of Justinian; so railed because that work is made up of fragmentsor extracts from the writings
Lat. To betray faith or fealty. A term used in feudal and old Englishlaw of a feudatory or feudal tenant who does not keep that fealty which he has swornto the lord.
An encounter, with blows or other personal violence, between two persons.See State v. Gladden, 73 N. C. 155; Carpenter v. People, 31 Colo. 2S4, 72 Pac. 1072;Coles v. New York Casualty Co.,
One which at first glance can be seen to be merely pretensive, setting up some ground which cannotbe sustained by argument. Dominion Nat. Bank v. Olympia Cotton Mills (C. C.) 12S Fed.
In old English law. The proeuratory or Instrument by which any person or community constituted or delegated their procurator or proctors to represent them in any judicial court or cause. Cowell.
A case primce impressionis (of the first impression) is a case of a new kind, to which no established principle of law or precedent directly applies, and which must be decided entirely
L. Fr. Next. A term somewhat used in modern law, and more frequently in the old law; as prochein ami, prochein cousin. Co. Litt. 10.
In old English law. The remuneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods.
Lat. In the Roman law. Money, (literally, brass;) metallic money in general, including gold. Dig. 9, 2, 2, pr.; Id. 9, 2, 27, 5; Id. 50, 16, 159.
The age next to infancy; the first half of the period of childhood, (pucritia,) extending from seven years to ten and a half. Inst. 3. 20. 9; 4 Bl. Comm. 22.
The first age; infancy, (infantia.) Cod. 6, 61. 8, 3.
Commerce or trade between the United States and foreign countries. Com. v. Housatonic R. Co.. 143 Mass. 204. 9 N. E. 547 ; Foster v. New Orleans, 94 U. S. 246. 24
A previous trial and conviction of the same offense as that now charged; pleadable in bar of the prosecution. State v. Ellsworth, 131 N. C. 773, 42 S. E. 099, 92 Am.