In old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by which the lords orprincipal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants. Bract, l’ol. 1246.

In old English law. An outlaw; so called because he was denied all help of friends. Bract, lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 12.

In English law. Associations supported by subscription, forthe relief and maintenance of the members, or their wives, children, relatives, andnominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. The statutes regulatingthese societies were

A suit brought by a creditor in chancery against an executor oradministrator, being really a suit by the executor or administrator, in the name of acreditor, against himself, in order to compel

Impotence. Johnson.

Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman.

Sax. Peace, security, or protection. This word occurs in many compoundterms used in Anglo-Saxon law.

An answer or plea is called “frivolous” when it is clearly insufficient on its face, and does not controvert the material points of the opposite pleading, and is presumably interposed for mere

An immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angl. t. 1, p. 173.

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 international law. That portion of the territory of any country whichlies close along the border line of another country, and so “fronts” or faces it. The termmeans something more than the

Lat. In the civil law. One who had the usufruct of a thing; i. e., theuse of the fruits, profits, or increase, as of land or animals. Inst. 2, 1, 36, 38.

Lat. In the civil law. Fruit, fruits; produce; profit or increase; the organic productions of a thing.The right to the fruits of a thing belonging to another.The compensation which a man receives

In the civil law. Anything produced from vines, underwood, chalk-pits,stone-quarries. Dig. 50, 10, 77.Grains and leguminous vegetables. In a more restricted sense, any esculent growingin pods. Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Calvin.

The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food.This term, in legal acceptation, is not confined to the produce of those trees whichin popular language

In the civil law. Grain. That which grows In an ear. Dig. 50, 16, 77.

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

In old records. Uncultivated and desert ground. 2 Mon. Angl. 327;Cowell.

A piece or parcel of land lying by itself. Co. Litt 56.

In old records. A place overgrown with shrubs and bushes. Spelman ; Blount