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FAKIR

A street peddler who disposes of worthless wares, or of any goods abovetheir value, by means of any false representation, trick, device, lottery, or game ofchance. Mills’ Ann. St Colo.

FALANG

In old English law. A jacket or close coat Blount

FALCARE

In old English law. To mow. Falcare prata, to mow or cut grass in meadowslaid iu for hay. A customary service to the lord by his Inferior tenants.Jus falcandi, the right of

FALCIDIAN LAW

In Roman law. A law on the subject of testamentary disposition,enacted by the people in the year of Rome 714, on the proposition of the tribuneFalcidius. By this law, the testator’s right

FALCIDIAN PORTION

That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Faicidian law,was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth.

FALDA

Span. In Spanish law. The slope or skirt of a hill. Fossat v. United States, 2Wall. 673, 17 L. Ed. 739.

FAID2 CURSUS

In old English law. A fold-course; the course (going or taking about)of a fold. Speluian. A sheep walk, or feed for sheep. 2 Vent 139.

FALDAGE

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of settingup folds for sheep iu any fields within their manors, the better to manure them,and this not only with their own but

FALDATA

In old English law. A flockor fold of sheep. Cowell.

FALDFEY

Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheepon his own ground. Blount

FALDISDORY

In ecclesiastical law. The bishop’s seat or throne within the chancel.

FALDSTOOL

A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels athis coronation. Wharton.

FALDWORTH

In Saxon law. A person of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresne.

FALERSE

In old English law. The tackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount.

FALESIA

In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt 56,

FALL

In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it 1 Kames, Eq.228.

FALL OF LAND

In English law. A quantity of land six ells square superficial measure.

FALLO

In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a controversy at law.

FALLOW-LAND

Land plowed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time aftersuccessive crops.

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