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| F | | punishment, English law. Formerly felons were branded and marked with a ... |
| FACIO UT DES | | . A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs ... |
| FACIO UT FACIAS | | . A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs ... |
| FACT | | . An action; a thing done. It is either simple ... |
| FACTO | | . In fact, in contradistinction to the lawfulness of the thing; ... |
| FACTOR | | contracts. An agent employed to sell goods or merchandise consigned or ... |
| FACTORAGE | | . The wages or allowances paid to a factor for ... |
| FACTORY | | Scotch law. A contract which partakes of a mandate and locatio ... |
| FACTUM | | . A deed. a man's own act and deed. ... |
| FACTUM | | French law. A memoir which contains summarily the fact on which ... |
| FACULTY | | canon law. A license; an authority. For example, the ordinary having ... |
| FACULTY | | Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or pow-er. The term faculty is ... |
| FAILURE | | . A total defect; an omission; a non-performance. Failure also signifies ... |
| FAILURE OF RECORD | | . The neglect to produce the record after having pleaded it. ... |
| FAILURE, OF ISSUE | | . When there is a want of issue to take ... |
| FAINT PLEADER | | . A false, fraudulent, or collusory manner of pleading, to the ... |
| FAIR | | . A privileged market.
2. In England, fairs are ... |
| FAIR-PLAY MEN | | . About the year 1769, there was a tract of ... |
| FAIT | | conveyancing. A deed lawfully executed. Com. Dig . h. t.; Cunn. ... |
| FAITH | | . Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. ... |
| FALCIDIAN LAW | | civil law, plebiscitum. A statute or law enacted by the people, ... |
| FAlR PLEADER | | . This is the name of a writ given, by ... |
| FALSE | | Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This ... |
| FALSE IMPRISONMENT | | . torts. Any intentional detention of the person of another not ... |
| FALSE JUDGMENT | | Eng. law. The name of a writ which lies when ... |
| FALSE PRETENCES | | criminal law. False representations and statements, made with a fraudulent design, ... |
| FALSE RETURN | | . A return made by the sheriff, or other ministerial officer, ... |
| FALSE TOKEN | | . A false document or sign of the existence of ... |
| FALSEHOOD | | . A wilful act or declaration contrary to truth. It ... |
| FALSO RETORNO BREVIUM | | old English law. The name of a writ which might have ... |
| FAMILY | | domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, ... |
| FAMILY ARRANGEMENTS | | . This term has been used to signify an agreement made ... |
| FAMILY BIBLE | | . A Bible containing an account of the births, marriages, and ... |
| FAMILY EXPENSES | | . The sum which it costs a man to maintain ... |
| FAMILY MEETINGS | | . Family councils, or family meetings in Louisiana, are meetings of ... |
| FAMOSUS LIBELLUS | | . Among the civilians these words signified that species of injuria ... |
| FANEGA | | Spanish law. A measure of land, which is not the ... |
| FARE | | . It signifies a voyage or passage; in its modern application, ... |
| FARM | | estates. A portion or tract of land, some of which ... |
| FARMER | | . One who is lessee of a farm. it is ... |
| FARO | | crim. law. There is a species of game called faro-table, or ... |
| FARRIER | | . One who takes upon himself the public employment of shoeing ... |
| FATHER | | domestic relations. He by whom a child is begotten. ... |
| FATHER PUTATIVE | | . A reputed father. Vide Putative father.
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| FATHER-IN-LAW | | . In latin, socer, is the father of one's wife, ... |
| FATHOM | | . A measure of length, equal to six feet. The ... |
| FATUOUS PERSON | | . One entirely destitute of reason; is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. ... |
| FAUBOURG | | . A district or part of a town adjoinng the ... |
| FAULT | | contracts, civil law. An improper act or omission, which arises from ... |
| FAUX | | French law. A falsification or fraudulent alteration or suppression of a ... |
| FAVOR | | . Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice.
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| FEAL | | . Faithful. This word is not used.
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| FEALTY | | . Fidelity, allegiance.
2. Under the feudal system, ... |
| FEAR | | crim. law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger.
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| FEASTS | | . Certain established periods in the Christian church. Formerly, the days ... |
| FEDERAL | | government. This term is commonly used to express a league or ... |
| FEE FARM | | Eng. law. A perpetual farm or rent. 1 Tho. Co. ... |
| FEE FARM RENT | | contracts, Eng. law. When the lord, upon the creation of a ... |
| FEE, FEODUM or FEUDUM | | estates. From the French, fief. A fee is an estate which ... |
| FEES | | compensation. Certain perquisites allowed by law to officers concerned in the ... |
| FEIGNED | | issue, pract. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or ... |
| FEIGNED ACTION | | practice. An action brought on a pretended right, when the plaintiff ... |
| FELO DE SE | | criminal law. A felon of himself; a self-murderer.
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| FELON | | crimes. One convicted and sentenced for a felony.
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| FELONIOUSLY | | pleadings. This is a technical word which must be introduced into ... |
| FELONY | | crimes. An offence which occasions a total forfeiture of. either lands ... |
| FEMALE | | . This term denotes the sex which bears young. ... |
| FEME | | or, more properly,
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| FEMININE | | . What belongs to the female sex.
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| FEMME | | . Woman.
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| FENCE | | . A building or erection between two contiguous estates, so as ... |
| FEOD | | . The same as fief. Vide Fief or Feud. ... |
| FEOFFMENT | | conveyancing. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates ... |
| FERAE | | . Wild, savage, not tame.
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| FERAE BESTIAE | | . Wild beasts. See Animals; Ferae naturce.
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| FERAE NATURAE | | . Of a wild nature.
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| FERM or FEARM | | . By this ancient word is meant land, fundus; (q. v.) ... |
| FERRY | | . A place where persons and things are taken across ... |
| FERRYMAN | | . One employed in taking persons across a river or ... |
| FESTINUM REMEDIUM | | . A speedy remedy.
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| FETTERS | | . A sort of iron put on the legs of ... |
| FEUD | | . This word, in Scotland, signifies a combination of kindred to ... |
| FEUDA | | . In the early feudal times grants were made, in ... |
| FEUDAL | | . A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as ... |
| FEUDAL LAW | | . By this phrase is understood a political system which placed ... |
| FIAR | | Scotch law. He whose property is burdened with a life rent. ... |
| FIAT | | practice. An order of a judge, or of an officer, ... |
| FICTION OF LAW | | . The assumption that a certain thing is true, and which ... |
| FICTITIOUS | | Pretended; supposed; as, fictitious actions; fictitious payee.
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| FICTITIOUS ACTIONS | | Practice. Suits brought. on pretended rights.
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