In old English practice. An action was so called where the party bringing it had no title torecover, although the words of the writ were true; a false action was properly wherethe

A fraudulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the deceptionof a third person.

n. In English law. A greater species of market; a privileged market. It is anincorporeal hereditament, granted by royal patent, or established by prescriptionpresupposing a grant from the crown.In the earlier English

Justly; rightly; equitably. With substantial correctness.”Fairly” is not synonymous with “truly,” arid “truly” should not be substituted for it ina commissioner’s oath to take testimony fairly. Language may be truly, yet unfairly,reported;

L. Fr. Anything done. A deed; act; fact. A deed lawfully executed. Com. Dig. Feme de fait. A wife de facto.

A deed enrolled, as a bargain and sale of freeholds. 1 Keb. 568.

In French law. A Juridical fact. One of the factors or elements constitutive of an obligation.

1. Confidence; credit; rellanca Thus, an act may be said to be done “on thefaith” of certain representations.2. Relief; credence; trust. Thus, the constitution provides that “full faith and credit”shall be given

A street peddler who disposes of worthless wares, or of any goods abovetheir value, by means of any false representation, trick, device, lottery, or game ofchance. Mills’ Ann. St Colo.

In old English law. A jacket or close coat Blount

In old English law. To mow. Falcare prata, to mow or cut grass in meadowslaid iu for hay. A customary service to the lord by his Inferior tenants.Jus falcandi, the right of

In Roman law. A law on the subject of testamentary disposition,enacted by the people in the year of Rome 714, on the proposition of the tribuneFalcidius. By this law, the testator’s right

That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Faicidian law,was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth.

A sheep-fold. Cowell.

Span. In Spanish law. The slope or skirt of a hill. Fossat v. United States, 2Wall. 673, 17 L. Ed. 739.

In old English law. A fold-course; the course (going or taking about)of a fold. Speluian. A sheep walk, or feed for sheep. 2 Vent 139.

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of settingup folds for sheep iu any fields within their manors, the better to manure them,and this not only with their own but

In old English law. A flockor fold of sheep. Cowell.

Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheepon his own ground. Blount

In ecclesiastical law. The bishop’s seat or throne within the chancel.