Earnest given to servants when hired or retained. The same as arlcs-pcnny. Cowell.

A feast or festival. Festum stultorum, the feast of fools.

Chains or shackles for the feet; Irons used to secure the legs of convicts,unruly prisoners, etc. Similar cnains securing the wrists are called “handcuffs.”

In Scotch law. A holding or tenure where the vassal, in place of military service, makes his return in grain or money. Distinguished from “wardholding,” which is themilitary tenure of the country.

Fr. Iu old French and Canadian law. Hearth and home. A termimporting actual settlement upon land by a tenant.

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.