Bias partiality, lenity, prejudice.2. The grand jury are sworn to inquire into all offences which have been committed, and of all violations of law, w...
Faithful. This word is not used....
Fidelity, allegiance.2. Under the feudal system, every owner of lands held them of some superior lord, from whom or from whose ancestors, the tenant h...
crim. law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger.2. Fear in the person robbed is one of the ingredients required. to constitute a robbery from th...
Certain established periods in the Christian church. Formerly, the days of the feasts of saints were used to indicate the dates of instruments, and me...
government. This term is commonly used to express a league or compact between two or more states. 2. In the United States the central government of th...
estates. From the French, fief. A fee is an estate which may continue forever. The word fee is explained to signify that the land, or other subject of...
Eng. law. A perpetual farm or rent. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 446, n. 5....
contracts, Eng. law. When the lord, upon the creation of a tenancy, reserves to himself and his heirs, either the rent for which it was before let to ...
compensation. Certain perquisites allowed by law to officers concerned in the administration of justice, or in the performance of duties required by l...
practice. An action brought on a pretended right, when the plaintiff has no true cause of action, for some illegal purpose. In a feigned action the wo...
issue, pract. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or the direction of a court of equity, or such courts as possess equitable powers, to determ...
criminal law. A felon of himself, a self-murderer.2. To be guilty of this offence, the deceased must have had the will and intention of committing it,...
crimes. One convicted and sentenced for a felony.2. A felon is infamous, and cannot fill any office, or become a witness in any case, unless pardoned,...
pleadings. This is a technical word which must be introduced into every indictment for a felony, charging the offence to have been committed felonious...
crimes. An offence which occasions a total forfeiture of. either lands or goods, or both, at common law, to which capital or other punishment may be s...
This term denotes the sex which bears young.2. It is a general rule, that the young of female animals which belong to us, are ours, nam fetus ventrem ...
or, more properly,...
Woman.2. This word is frequently used in law. Baron and feme, hushand and wife, feme covert, a. married woman, feme sole, a single woman.3. A feme cov...
What belongs to the female sex.2. When the feminine is used, it is generally confined to females, as, if a man bequeathed all his mares to his son, hi...
A building or erection between two contiguous estates, so as to divide them, or on the same estate, so as to divide one part from another.2. Fences ar...
The same as fief. Vide Fief or Feud....
conveyancing. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion that...
Wild, savage, not tame....
Wild beasts. See Animals, Ferae naturce....
Of a wild nature.2. This term is used to designate animals which are not usually tamed. Such animals belong to the person who has captured them only w...
By this ancient word is meant land, fundus, (q. v.) and, it is said, houses and tenements may pass by it. Co. Litt. 5 a....
A place where persons and things are taken across a river or other stream in boats or other vessels, for hire. 4 N. S. 426, S. C. 3 Harr. Lo. R. 341.2...
One employed in taking persons across a river or other stream, in boats or other contrivances at a ferry. The owner of a ferry is not considered a fer...
A speedy remedy.2. This is said of those cases where the remedy for the redress of an injury is given without any unnecessary delay. Bac. Ab. Assise, ...
A sort of iron put on the legs of malefactors, or persons accused of crimes.2. When a prisoner is brought into court to plead he shall not be put in f...
This word, in Scotland, signifies a combination of kindred to revenge injuries or affronts done to any of their blood. Vide Fief....
In the early feudal times grants were made, in the first place, only during the pleasure of the grantor, and called muncra, (q. v.) afterwards for lif...
A term applied to whatever concerned a feud, as feudal law: feudal rights....
By this phrase is understood a political system which placed men and estates under hierarchical and multiplied distinctions of lords and vassals. The ...
Scotch law. He whose property is burdened with a life rent. Ersk. Pr. of L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 23....
practice. An order of a judge, or of an officer, whose authority, to be signified by his signature, is necessary to authenticate the particular acts....
The assumption that a certain thing is true, and which gives to a person or thing, a quality which is not natural to it, and establishes, consequently...
Pretended, supposed, as, fictitious actions, fictitious payee....
Practice. Suits brought. on pretended rights.2. They are sometimes brought, usually on a pretended wager, for the purpose of obtaining the opinion of ...
contract. A supposed person, a payee, who has no existence.2. When the name of a fictitious payee has been used, in making a bill of exchange, and it ...
civil law. One who has a beneficial interest in an estate, which, for a time, is committed to the faith or trust of another. This term has nearly, the...
civil law. A gift which a man makes to another, through the agency of a third person, who is requested to perform the desire of the giver. For example...
civil law. The contract of suretyship....
civil law. One who becomes security for the debt of another, promising to pay it in case the principal does not do so.2. He differs from co-obligor in...
civil law. A contract by which we sell a thing to some one, that is, transmit to him the property of the thing, with the solemn forms of emancipation,...
This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to deliver t...
In its origin, a fief was a district of country allotted to one of the chiefs who invaded the Roman empire, as a stipend or reward, with a condition a...
A part of a farra separately enclosed, a close. 1 Chit. Pr. 160. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house, ager est locus, que...
practice. The name of a writ of execution. It is so called because, when writs were in Latin, the words directed to the sheriff were, quod fieri facia...
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