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

In the civil law this term corresponds nearly to our “cestuique trust.” It designates a person wTho has the real or beneficial interest in an estate orfund, the title or administration of

In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property(usually by will) to a person, accompanied by a request or direction of the donor thatthe recipient will transfer the

In the civil law. To order a thing upon one’s faith; to pledge one’sself; to become surety for another. Fide-jubesT Fide-jubco: Do you pledge yourself? Ido pledge myself. Inst. 3, 10, 1.

In Roman law. A guarantor; one who becomes responsible for thepayment of another’s debt, by a stipulation which binds him to discharge it If the principaldebtor fails to do so. Mackeld. Rom.

See FIDE-JUSSOB.

Lat Fealty, (q. v.)Fidelitas. De nnllo tenemento, quod tenetur ad terminum, fit homagii; fit tamen indefidelitatis sacramentnm. Co.Litt. 070. Fealty. For no tenement which Is held for a term is there the

Lat. To betray faith or fealty. A term used in feudal and old Englishlaw of a feudatory or feudal tenant who does not keep that fealty which he has swornto the lord.

Lat. Faith; honesty; confidence ; trust; veracity ; honor. Occurring In thephrases “bona fides,” (good faith,) “mala fides,” (bad faith,) and “uberrima fides,” (theutmost or most abundant good faith.)Fides est obligatio conscientiae