Lat. Fame; character; reputation; report of common opinion.Fama, fides et oculus non patiuntur ludum. 3 Bulst. 220. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheatFama quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud

A killer of reputation; a slanderer.

In Roman law. A house hold; a family. On the composition of tlie Romanfamily, see AGNATI; COGNATI; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In Roman law. An intermediate person who purchased theaggregate inheritance when sold per ecs et lihram, In the process of making a will underthe Twelve Tables. This purchaser was merely a man

In Roman law. An action for the partition of the aggregatesuccession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hacredcs. It was also applicableto enforce a contribution towards the necessary expenses incurred on

Persons of the king’s household. The ancient title of the “sixclerks” of chancery in England. Crabb, Com. Law, 184; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 249, 251.

A collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or management. .Tahoe v. Jarboe, 100 Mo. App. 459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge v. Boston &T. R.

Fr. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel’s stern.

In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but Inthe Spanish settlements in America consisting of 6,400 square varas or yards.

A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.

In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton.

In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22,

The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman.

A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by laml or by water. Cowell.The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for

A mill; a toll of meal or flour. Jacob; Spelman.

Money paid by tenants In lieu of a herlot. It was often applied to the bestchattel, as distinguished from heriot, the best beast. Cowell.

Whoremongers and adulterers.

n. A certain amount of provisionreserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman.Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid In money, itwas called “blanclie firmc.”

1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or years, althoughit he hut of a small house and land, is called “farmer.” This word implies nomystery,