The remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also the jointure of a wife. Jacob.

The founding or building of a college or hospital. The incorporationor endowment of a college or hospital is the foundation ; and he who endows it withland or other property is the

Based upon; arising from, growing out of, or resting upon; as in theexpressions “founded in fraud,” “founded on a consideration,” “founded on contract,”and the like. See In re Grant Shoe Co., 130

Founderous; out of repair, as a road. Cro. Car. 300.

A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent orguardian, its relatives being unknown. It has a settlement in the district where found.

Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned bythe seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread forbaking. Also the

The face of a written instrument. That which is contained on theface of a deed (without any aid from the knowledge of the circumstances under which itis made) is said to be

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.

Fr. To fork. This was a method of delaying an action anciently resortedto by defendants when two of them were joined in the suit. Instead of appearingtogether, each would appear in turn

A form of socialism. See 1 Mill, Pol. Ec. 2G0.

Such fowls as are preserved under the game laws in warrens.According to Manwood, these are partridges and pheasants. According to Coke, theyare partridges, rails, quails, woodcocks, pheasants, mallards, and herons. Co. Litt.

In English law. This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 00, whichsecured to juries, upon the trial of indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing ageneral verdict of guilty or not

A Latin abbreviation for “fragmen- turn,” a fragment, used in citations to theDigest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Oi- vilis of Justinian, the several extracts fromjuristic writings of which it is

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

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.

As applied to tracts of land, particularly townships, sections, quartersections, and other divisions according to the government survey, and also miningclaims, this term means that the exterior boundary lines are laid down

Arable land. Mon. Angl.

Lat. The breaking or wreck of ships; the same as naufragium, (q. v.)

Fr. Expense; charges; costs. Frais d’un proems, costs of a suit.

A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents.