punishment, English law. Formerly felons were branded and marked with a hot iron, with this letter, on being admitted to the benefit of clergy....
A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs when a man agrees to perform anything for a price, either specifically mentioned or left to the d...
A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs when I agree with a man to do his work for him if he will do mine for me. Or if two persons agree...
An action, a thing done. It is either simple or compound. 2. A fact is simple when it expresses a purely material act unconnected with any moral quali...
In fact, in contradistinction to the lawfulness of the thing, it is applied to anything actually done. Vide Expostfacto....
contracts. An agent employed to sell goods or merchandise consigned or delivered to him by, or for his principal, for a compensation commonly called f...
The wages or allowances paid to a factor for his services, it is more usual to call this commissions. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1013, 2 Id. n. 1288....
Scotch law. A contract which partakes of a mandate and locatio ad operandum, and which is in the English and American law books discussed under the ti...
A deed. a mans own act and deed.2. When a man denies by his plea that he made a deed on which he is sued, be pleads non estfactum. (q. v.) Vide Deed, ...
French law. A memoir which contains summarily the fact on which a contest has happened, the means on which a party founds his pretensions, with the re...
canon law. A license, an authority. For example, the ordinary having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this power, which, w...
Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or pow-er. The term faculty is more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from whom it spr...
A total defect, an omission, a non-performance. Failure also signifies a stoppage of payment, as, there has been a failure to-day, some one has stoppe...
When there is a want of issue to take an estate limited over by an executory devise.2. Failure of issue is definite or indefinite. When the precise ti...
The neglect to produce the record after having pleaded it. When a defendant pleads a matter, and offers to prove it by the record, and then pleads nul...
A false, fraudulent, or collusory manner of pleading, to the deception of a third person. 3 E. I., c. 19....
A privileged market.2. In England, fairs are granted by the kings patent.3. In the United States, fairs are almost unknown. They are recognized in Ala...
About the year 1769, there was a tract of country in Pennsylvania, situate between Lycoming creek and Pine creek, in which the proprietaries prohibite...
This is the name of a writ given, by the statute of Marlebridge, 52 H. III., c. ii. Vide Beau Pleader....
conveyancing. A deed lawfully executed. Com. Dig . h. t., Cunn. Dictl. h. t....
Probity, good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief, as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of...
civil law, plebiscitum. A statute or law enacted by the people, made during the reign of Augustus, on the proposition of Falcidius, who was a tribune ...
Not true, as, false pretences, unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition....
torts. Any intentional detention of the person of another not authorized by law, is false imprisonment. 1 Bald. 571, 9 N. H. Rep. 491, 2 Brev. R. 157....
Eng. law. The name of a writ which lies when a false judgment has been given in the county court, court baron, or other courts not of record. F. N. B....
criminal law. False representations and statements, made with a fraudulent design, to obtain " money, goods, wares, and merchandise-" with intent to c...
A return made by the sheriff, or other ministerial officer, to a writ in which is stated a fact contrary to the truth, and injurious to one of the par...
A false document or sign of the existence of a fact, in general used for the purpose of fraud. Vide Token, and 2 Stark. Ev. 563....
A wilful act or declaration contrary to truth. It is committed either by the wilful act of the party, or by dissimulation, or by words. It is wilful, ...
old English law. The name of a writ which might have been sued out against a sheriff, for falsely returning writs. Cunn. Dict....
domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who...
This term has been used to signify an agreement made between a father and his son, or children, or between brothers, to dispose of property in a diffe...
A Bible containing an account of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family.2 An entry, by the father, made in a Bible, stating that...
The sum which it costs a man to maintain a family.2. Merchants and traders who desire to exhibit the true state of their affairs in their books, keep ...
Family councils, or family meetings in Louisiana, are meetings of at least five relations, or in default of relations of minors or other persons on wh...
Among the civilians these words signified that species of injuria which corresponds nearly to libel or slander....
Spanish law. A measure of land, which is not the same in every province. Diccionario de la Acad., 2 Whites Coll. 49. In Spanish America, the fanega co...
It signifies a voyage or passage, in its modern application, it is the money paid for a passage. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1036....
estates. A portion or tract of land, some of which is cultivated. 2 Binn. 238. In parlance, and for the purpose of description in a deed, a farm means...
One who is lessee of a farm. it is said that every lessee for life or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called farmer. This word...
crim. law. There is a species of game called faro-table, or faro-bank, which is forbidden by law in many states, and the persons who keep it for the p...
One who takes upon himself the public employment of shoeing horses.2. Like an innkeeper, a common carrier, and other persons who assume a public emplo...
domestic relations. He by whom a child is begotten.2. A father is the natural guardian of his children, and his duty by the natural law consists in ma...
In latin, socer, is the father of ones wife, or of ones hushand....
A reputed father. Vide Putative father....
A measure of length, equal to six feet. The word is probably derived from the Teutonic word fad, which signifies the thread or yarn drawn out in spinn...
One entirely destitute of reason, is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. B. 1, tit. 7, s. 48....
A district or part of a town adjoinng the principal city, as, a faubourg of New Orleans. 18 Lo. R. 286....
contracts, civil law. An improper act or omission, which arises from ignorance, carelessness, or negligence. The act or omission must not have been me...
French law. A falsification or fraudulent alteration or suppression of a thing by words, by writings, or by acts without either. Biret, Vocabulaire de...
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