Category: F

A small ditch. Cowell.

Lat. A breaking; division; fraction; a portion of a thing less than the whole.

In old English law. A wood or wood-ground where ash-trees grow. Co. Litt. 46.

1. Unconstrained; having power to follow the dictates of his own will. Notsubject to the dominion of another. Not compelled to involuntary servitude. Used in thissense as opposed to “slave.”2. Not bound

Immediate; recent; following without any material interval.

An immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 173.

In Spanish law. A law; a code.A general usage or custom of a province, having the force of law. Strother v. Lucas,12 I’et. 440, 0 L. Ed. 1137. Ir contra fuero, to

The law which determines the constitution of government in astate, and prescribes and regulates the manner of Its exercise; the organic law of astate; the constitution.

This term includes that which furnishes, or with which anything is furnished or supplied; whatever must be supplied to a house, a room, or the like, to make it habitable, convenient, or

In old Scotch practice. Fyled; found guilty. See FYLE.

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.

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 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 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.

Such costs as are to be paid at the end of the suit; costs, the liability for which depends upon the final result of the litigation. Goodyear v. Sawyer (C. C.) 17

Any county having a judicial and municipal organization separate from that of the county where matters arising in the former county are called in question, though both may lie within the same

Cousins

Locus criminis; Particeps criminis. See those titles.

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.