An estate in land or other real property, of uncertain duration; that is,either of inheritance or which may possibly last for the life of the tenant at the least, (asdistinguished from a

This word has had various meanings at different stages of history. In the Roman law, it denoted one who was either born free or emancipated and was the opposite of “slave.” In

Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportationof goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port. Rut the term is also used to denote thehire paid for

In maritime law. The party by whom a vessel is engaged or chartered ;otherwise called the “charterer.” 2 Steph. Comm. 148. In French law, the owner of avessel is called the “freighter,”

In early times, in English law, this term was applied to every strangeror “outlandish” man. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 15.

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

In old English law. A mulct or fine exacted from him who harbored anoutlawed friend. Cowell; Tomlins.

In old English law. A madman, or person in a frenzy. Fleta, lib. 1, c.36.

A free-surety, or free- pledge. Spelman. See FRANK-PLEDGE.

r. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. Green v. State, 109Ind. 175. 9 X. E. 781; State v. Ah Sana, 14 Or. 347, 13 Pae. 303.Frequentia actns multnm operatur.The

Fr. A brother. Frcre eyne, elder brother. Frcre puisne, younger brother. Rritt.c. 75.

In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood.

Immediate; recent; following without any material interval.

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.

Fr. In French marine law. To freight a ship; to let it. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11,

In old English law. The freight of a ship; freight money.Cowell.

Lat. A strait.

An order of religious persons, of whom there were four principal branches,viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Franciscans ; (2) Augustines; (3) Dominicans, or BlackFriars; (4) White Friars, or Carmelites, from whom

In the civil law. A temporary separation between husband and wife,caused by a quarrel or estrangement, but not amounting to a divorce, because notaccompanied with an intention to dissolve the marriage.

Frankpledge. Cowell. Security for the peace. Spelman.