This word is used in composition, as frank-almoign, frank-marriage, frank-tenement, &c....
old English law. This is a French law word, signifying free-alms.2. Formerly religious corporations, aggregate or sole, held lands of the donor, to th...
English law. It takes place, according to Blackstone, when lands are given by one man to another, together with a wife who is daughter or kinswoman of...
estates. Same as freehold, (q. v.) or liberum tenementum....
A brother. Vide Brother....
criminal law. He who kills his brother or sister. The crime of such a person is also called fratricide....
torts. Unlawfully, designedly, and knowingly, to appropriate the property of another, without a criminal intent.2. Illustrations. 1. Every appropriati...
contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an...
The name commonly given to the statate 29 Car. II., c. 3, entitled " An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries." This statute has been re-enacted ...
A conveyance of property without any consideration of value, for the purpose of delaying or bindering creditors. These are declared void by the statut...
Not bound to servitude, at liberty to act as one pleases. This word is put in opposition to slave.2. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apporti...
Mar. law. Having the wind from a favorable quarter.2. To prevent collision of vessels, it is the duty of the vessel having a free course to give way t...
ships. By this is understood neutral vessels. Free ships are sometimes considered as making free goods....
Eng. law. A franchise erected for the preservation and custody of beasts and fowls of warren. 2 Bl. Com. 39, Co. Litt. 233....
The name formerly given by the Romans to those persons who had been released from a State of servitude. Vide Liberti libertini....
Liberty, the right to do what is not forbidden by law. Freedom does not preclude the idea of subjection to law, indeed, it presupposes the existence o...
estates. An estate of freehold is an estate in lands or other real property, held by a free tenure, for the life of the tenant or that of some other p...
A person who is the owner of a freehold estate....
One who is in the enjoyment of the right to do whatever he pleases, not forbidden by law. One in the possession of the civil rights enjoyed by, the pe...
mar. law, contracts. The sum agreed on for the hire of a ship, entirely or in part, for the carriage of goods from one port to another, l3 East, 300, ...
contracts. He to whom a ship or vessel has been hired. 3 Kent, Com. 173, 3 Pardess. n. 704. 2. The freighter is entitled to the enjoyment of the vesse...
The act of pursuing cattle which have escaped, or are being driven away from land, when they were liable to be distrained, into other places. 3 Bouv. ...
Eng. law. An earnest pursuit of the offender when a robbery has been committed, Without ceasing, until he has been arrested or discovered. Towl. Law D...
civil law. A slight dissension between hushand and wife, which produced a momentary separation, without any intention to dissolve the marriage, in whi...
This name was sometimes anciently given to an outlaw....
med juris. The same as impotence. (q. v.)...
The fruits or produce of the earth which are obtained by the industry of man, as growing corn....
property. The produce of tree or plant containing the seed or used for food. Fruit is considered real estate, before it is separated from the plant or...
A Spanish code of laws, said to, be the most ancient in Europe. Barr. on the Stat. 8, note....
Eng. law. He fled. This phrase, in an inquisition, signifies that a person fled for treason or felony. The effect of this is to make the party forfeit...
A runaway, one who is at liberty, and endeavors, by, going away, to escape....
One who has escaped from the service of his master. 2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 4, s. 2, 3, directs that "no person held to service...
crim. law. One who, having committed a crime within a jurisdiction, goes into another in order to evade the law, and avoid its punishment. 2. By the C...
A. person is said to have full age at twenty-one years, whether the person be a man or woman. See Age....
When all the judges are present and properly organized, it -is said there is a full court, a court in banc....
pleading. A denial of all wrong or injury. It is expressed in the following formula: And the said C D, (the defendant,) by E F, his attorney, comes, a...
office. Properly, the occupation of an office, by the performance of its duties, the officer is said to fill his function. Dig. lib. 32, 1. 65, 1....
One who is in office or in some public employment....
This term is applied to something which once had life and power, but which now has no virtue whatsoever, as, for example, a warrant of attorney on whi...
This word is applied to those laws which are the foundation of society. Those laws by which the exercise of power is restrained and regulated, are fun...
That part of the national debt for which certain funds are appropriated towards the payment of the interest....
Eng. law. The name given to a plan which provides that on the creation of a public loan, funds shall immediately be formed, and secured by law, for th...
Cash on hands, as, A B is in funds to pay my bill on him, stocks, as, A B has $1000 in the funds. By public funds is understood, the taxes, customs, &...
civil raw. Any portion of land whatever, without considering the use or employ to which it is applied....
Money expended in procuring the interment of a corpse. 2. The person who orders the funeral is responsible personally for the expenses, and if the est...
A term used in the civil, French, and Scotch law, it signifies anything whatever, which consists in quantity, and is regulated by number, weight, or m...
The gallows. 3 Inst. 58....
An insane man, a madman, a lunatic. 2. In general, such a man can make no contract, because he has no capacity or will: Furiosus nullum negotium gener...
A furlong, or a furrow oneeighth part of a mile long. Co. Litt. 5. b....
A measure of length, being forty poles, or one-eighth of a mile. Vide Measures....
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