A measure of length, being forty poles, or one-eighth of a mile.

Leave of absence; especially. leave given to a military or naval officer,or soldier or seaman, to be absent from service for a certain time. Also the documentgranting leave of absence.

See FORNAGIUM ; FOUR.

To supply; provide; provide for use. Delp v. Brewing Co., 123 Pa. 42, 15Atl. 871; Wyatt v. Larimer & “W. Irr. Co., 1 Colo. App. 480. 29 Pac. 906. As used in

This term includes that which furnishes, or with which anything is furnished or supplied; whatever must be supplied to a house, a room, or the like, to make it habitable, convenient, or

Formerly an inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY.Furor contrahi matrimonium non sinit, quia consensu opus est. Insanityprevents marriage from being contracted, because consent is needed. Dig. 23, 2, 16, 2;1 Ves.

In old English law. Time to advise or take counsel, Jacob.FURTHER. In most of its uses in law, this term means additional, though occassionallyit may mean any. future, or other. See London

In criminal law, furthering, helping forward, promotion, or advancementof a criminal project or conspiracy. Powers v. Comm., 114 Ky. 237, 70 S. W. 652.

In old English law. Stealthily ; by stealth. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38,

Lat. Theft. The fraudulent appropriation to one’s self of the property ofanother, with an intention to commit theft without the consent of the owner. Fleta, 1. 1,c. 36; Bract, fol. 150; 3

In old English law. A beating with sticks or clubs; one of the ancientkinds of punishment of malefactors. Bract fol. 1046, lib. 3. tr. 1, c. 6.

In old English law. A staff, used in making livery of seisin. Bract fol. 40. A baton, club, or cudgel.

In Scotch law. A debt which is created, but which will not becomedue till a future day. 1 Bell, Comm. 315.

See ESTATE.

This term has grown out of those purely speculative transactions, inwhich there is a nominal contract of sale forfuture delivery, but where in fact none is ever intended or executed. The nominal

Lat. Those who are to be. Part of the commencement of old deeds. “Sciantprascntcs ct futuri. quod cqo talis, dedi ct conccssi,” etc., (Let all men now living and tocome know that

A Celtic word, meaning a wood or forest

One of the fines Incurred for homicide.

A bow-net for catching fish. Pub. St Mass. 1SS2, p. 1201.

In old Scotch law. To defile; to declare foul or defiled. Ileuce, to find a prisoner guilty.