An unlawful game of cards, In which all the other players play against thebanker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and bedealt from the

Lat. An ill-composed book containing a collection of miscellaneoussubjects not properly associated nor scientifically arranged. Wharton.

The ancient appellation of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery lane.

Lat. Right; justice; the divine law. 3 Rl. Comm. 2; Calvin.

In old English law. A faggot of wood.

In Georgia, a “fast” bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunctionsuits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up forreview

A day of fasting and penitence, or of mortification by religious abstinence.See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 100, et seq.

See ESTATE.

In Roman law. Lawful. Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice couldlawfully be administered by the praetor. See DIES FASTI.Fatetur facinus qni judicium fugit. 3 Inst. 14. He who flees judgment

The male parent. He by whom a child is begotten. As used in law, thisterm may (according to the context and the nature of the instrument) include a putativeas well as a

A nautical measure of six feet iu length. Occasionally used as a superficialmeasure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-sixsquare feet. Nahaolelua v.

A whore. Du Fresne.

In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 200.

Lat. Fate; a superhuman power ; an event or cause of loss, beyond humanforesight or means of prevention.

One entirely destitute of reason; is Qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48.

An idiot or fool. Bract, fol. 4206.Foolish; absurd; indiscreet; or ill considered. Fatuum judicium, a foolish judgment orverdict Applied to the verdict of a jury which, though false, was not criminally so,

In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town adjoiningthe principal city; a suburb. See City Council of Lafayette v. Hollaud, 18 La. 2S0.

(Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclosing aportion or arm of tlie sea within tliein. 1 Kent, Comm. .'{(iT, and note; Ilale, De JureMar. 10; The Harriet, 1 Story, 251,

In the civil law. Negligence; want of care. An improper act or omission,injurious to another, and transpiring through negligence, rashness, or ignorance.There are in law three degrees of faults.

Bias; partiality; lenity; prejudice. See CHALLENGE.Favorabilia in lege sunt fiscus, dos, vita, libertas. Jenk. Cent. 94. Things favorablyconsidered in law are the treasury, dower, life, liberty.Favorabiliores rei, potius quam ac- tores, habentur.