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An ancient custom in Ireland, in which persons put away their childrento fosterers. Fostering was held to be a stronger alliance than blood, and the fosterchildren participated in the fortunes of their

A breaking, or breaking up; a fragment or broken part; a portion of athing, less than the whole. Jory v. Palace Dry Goods Co., 30 Or. 196, 46 Pac. 786.

In old records. A fraternity, brotherhood, or society of religious persons,who were mutually bound to pray for the good health and life. etc.. of their livingbrethren, and the souls of those that

A sale of goods “free on board” imports that they are to be delivered on board the cars, vessels, etc., without expense to the buyer for packing, cartage, or other such charges.In

A flood, or overflowing of a river, by means of rains or melted snow; an inundation. Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 42; Harris v. Social Mfg. Co., 9 It. I.99.

In English law a frontager is a person owning oroccupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term isgenerally used with reference to the liability of frontagers

In old English law. A drove of cattle. Blount.

A founder, (

Formerly an inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY.Furor contrahi matrimonium non sinit, quia consensu opus est. Insanityprevents marriage from being contracted, because consent is needed. Dig. 23, 2, 16, 2;1 Ves.

Sax. In Anglo-Saxon law. The military array or land force of the wholecountry. Contribution to the f.vrd was one of the Imposts forming the trinoda nccessitas.(Also spelled “ferd” and “fird.”)

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.

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

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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.

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.