Category: F

A Turkish word denoting a decree or grant of privileges, or passport to a traveler.

A term descriptive of a bill in equity which seeks a discovery upongeneral, loose, and vague allegations. Story, Fq. PI.

A check drawn upon a banker by a person who has no funds at thebanker’s and knows that such is the case.

Flood-mark, high-water mark. The mark which the sea. at flowingwater and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount.

Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell.

Vagabonds. Blount.

In the law of evidence. Impressions made upon earth, snow, orother surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of thefeet. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 204.

The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recoverpossession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases doesnot involve title, but is confined to the

or medical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is “that sciencewhich teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes ofthe law; hence its limits are, on the one

To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing iu imitation of another thing,with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving anddefrauding by the use of tlie spurious article.

To forswear; to abjure; to abandon.

Collections of formula, or forms of forensic proceedings andinstruments used among the Franks, and other early continental nations of Europe.Among these the formulary of Marculphus may be mentioned as of considerable interest.Butl.

In Scotch law. The action by which an arrestment (garnishment) ismade effectual. It is a decree or process by which the creditor Is given the right todemand that the sum arrested be

One who receives and forwards goods,taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensationfrom the owners, having no concern in the vessels or wagons by which theyare transported,

The seas surrounding England. These were divided into the Western,including the Scotch and Irish; the Northern, or North sea; the Eastern, being theGerman ocean; the Southern, being the British channel.

A man born in France. A designation formerly given to aliens In England.

L. Fr. A franchise.

Sax. An outlaw. So called because on his outlawry he was denied allhelp of friends after certain days. Cowell ; Blount.

See AMICUS CURLE.

Sax. In Saxon law. A chief seat, or mansion house. Cowell.