Feuds or fees.

Pertaining to feuds or fees; relating to or growing out of the feudal systemor feudal law; having the quality of a feud, as distinguished from “allodial.”

The feudal system; the aggregate of feudal principles and usages.

To reduce to a feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism. Webster.

A recompense for engaging in a feud, and the damages consequent, ithaving been the custom in ancient times for all the kindred to engage in their kinsman’squarrel. Jacob.

An occasional early form of “feud” in the sense of private war or vengeance. Termes de la Ley. See FEUD.

A writer on feuds, as Cuja- cius, Spelman, etc.

In Spanish law. Feud or fee. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 2.

L. Lat. A feud, fief, or fee. A right of using and enjoying forever the landsof another, which the lord grants on condition that the tenant shall render fealty,military duty, and other

An Indefinite expression for a small or limited number. In cases where exactdescription is required, the use of this word will not answer. Butts v. Stowe, 53 Vt. 003;Allen v. Kirwan, 159

A Latin abbreviation for “Frag- meuta,” designating the Digest or Pandects in theCor puis Juris Civilis of Justinian; so railed because that work is made up of fragmentsor extracts from the writings

An abbreviation for fieri facias, (which see.)

L. Fr. To pledge one’s faith. Kelham.

Sp. In Spanish law, trust, confidence, and eorrelatively a legal duty or obligationarising therefrom. The term is sufficiently broad in meaning to include both ageneral obligation and a restricted liability under a

In Scotch law. He that has the fee or feu. The proprietor is termed “fiar,” incontradistinction to the life-renter. 1 Karnes, Eq. Pref. One whose property is chargedwith a life-rent.

The value of grain in the different counties of Scotland, fixed yearly by the respective sheriffs, in the month of February, with the assistance of juries.These regulate the prices of grain stipulated

(Lat. “Let it be done.”) in English practice. A short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for

In Roman law. A fiction; an assumption or supposition of the law.”Fictio” in the old Roman law was properly a term of pleading, and signified a falseaverment on the part of the

An assumption or supposition of law that something which is or may befalse is true, or that a state of facts exists-which has never really taken place. New Hampshire Strafford Bank v.

A term derived from the Latin “fidci-commissarius,” and occasionallyused by writers on equity jurisprudence as a substitute for the law Frenchterm “cestui que trust,” as being more elegant and euphonious. See Brown