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FRUCTUS

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

FRUGES

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.

FRUIT

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

FRUMENTUM

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

FRUMSTOLL

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

FRUSCA TERRA

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

FRUTECTUM

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

FRUTOS

In Spanish law. Fruits; products ; produce; grains ; profits. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

FRYMITH

In old English law. The affording harbor and entertainment to any one.

FRYTHE

Sax. In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Litt. 56.An arm of the sea, or a strait between two lands. Cowell.

FUER

In old English law. Flight. It is of two kinds: (1) Fuer in fait, or in facto, wherea person does apparently and corporally flee; (2) fuer in lev, or in lege,when, being

FUERO

In Spanish law. A law; a code.A general usage or custom of a province, having the force of law. Strother v. Lucas,12 I’et. 440, 0 L. Ed. 1137. Ir contra fuero, to

FUGAM FECIT

Lat. He has made flight; he fled. A clause inserted In an inquisition,in old English law, meaning that a person indicted for treason or felony had fled. Theeffect of this is to

FUGITATE

In Scotch practice. To outlaw, by the sentence of a court; to outlaw fornon-appearance In a criminal case. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 350.

FUGITIVE

One who flees; always used in law with the implication of a flight, evasion,or escape from some duty or penalty or from the consequences of a misdeed.

FUGITIVUS

In the civil law. A fugitive ; a runaway slave. Dig. 11, 4; Cod. 6, 1. Seethe various definitions of this word in Dig. 21, 1, 17.

FUGUES

Fr. In medical jurisprudence. Ambulatory automatism. See AUTOMATISM.

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