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.
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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.
A sheep-fold. Cowell.
Span. In Spanish law. The slope or skirt of a hill. Fossat v. United States, 2Wall. 673, 17 L. Ed. 739.
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.
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
In old English law. A flockor fold of sheep. Cowell.
Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheepon his own ground. Blount
In ecclesiastical law. The bishop’s seat or throne within the chancel.
A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels athis coronation. Wharton.
In Saxon law. A person of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresne.
In old English law. The tackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount.
In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt 56,
In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it 1 Kames, Eq.228.
In English law. A quantity of land six ells square superficial measure.
In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a controversy at law.
Land plowed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time aftersuccessive crops.
In old English law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land.Cowell.
In the civil law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or thing in a written instrument Inst 2, 20, 30.Falsa demonstratio non nocet, cam de corpore (persona) constat. False descriptiondoes not
In the civil law. False or counterfeit money. Cod. 9, 24.Falsa orthographia non vitiat chartani,concessionein. False spelling does not vitiate a deed. Shep. Touch. 55, 87; 9 Coke,48
In old English law. To counterfeit. Quia falsavit sit/ilium, because he counterfeited the seal. Bract fol. 2766.