FCENUS
Lat. In the civil law. Interest on money; the lending of money on interest. —Fonus nauticum. Nautical or maritime Interest. An extraordinary rate of interest
Terms beginning with "F" (326 total)
FE
303, 42 I. R. A. 809. 69 Am. St. Rep. 228. —Alien friend. The subject of a nation with which we are at peace; an alien amy.—Alien mée. A man born an alien.
Fealty signifies
fidelity. the phrase “feal and leal”? meaning simply “faithful and loyal.” Tenants by knights’ service and also tenants in socage were required to take an oath of fealty to the king or others, their immediate l...
Fearne, Rem
3; Thompson y. Adams, 205 III. 55 ‘ 1; Griswold v. Greer, 18 Ga. 545; Price v. Sisson, 13 N. J. La Oa Yocum vy. Siler, 160 Mo. 281, 61 S. W. ; Shannon v. Bonham, 27 Ind. App. 369. 60 N. EB. 951.— Oross-rem er. Where ...
FEASANCE
‘emotion. An evidence of guilt in certain -cases. See Burrill, Circ. Bv. 476. A making; the making of an indenture, release, or obligation. Litt. § 371; Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 560. The making of a statute.
Fed
851; Armijo v. Abeytia, 5 N. M. 533, 25 1, 53 Cc. C. A. 513; Zimmerer v. Fremont Nat. Bank, 59 Neb. 661, 81 N. W. 849; 201; Sharp v. Curtiss, 15 Conn. 526; Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 Houst. {Del.) 529, 18 Atl...
Fed. - Woodward v. Dillworth, 75 Fed
ae 21 C. C. A. 417.-Memorandum sale. A
Fed. .Cas
196; Griffith v. State, 90 Ala. 583, 8 South. 812; Spear v. Hiles, 67 Wis. 861, 30 1,007. See also PERILS OF THE SEa. 15; In re Scott, 21 Fed. Cas. 808; 1,310. 321; Goldenberg v. Murphy, 108 424—Domestic commerce....
Fed. Ca
(or Cas.). Federal Cases.
Fed. Cas. No
4,057; White v. Cole, 24 Wend. (N. Y.) 126; Carrington v. The Pratt, 18 14,473. 5,554. Cost price is that actually paid for goods. Buck v. Burk, 18 N. Y. 337. 5,916; De Lovio v. Boit, 2 2,874. 1,673; The Santissima ...
Fed. Gas
754. There may also be an aban donment of a patent, where the inventor dedicates it to the public use; and this may be shown by his failure to sue infringers, to sell licenses, or otherwise to make efforts to realize a-p...
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
CONFEDERATION. A league or compact for mutual support, particularly of princes, nations, or states. Such was the colonial government during the Revolution. —Articles of Oonfederation. The name of the instrument embodyi...
FEE
al purposes. See United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 23 L. Ed. 588; Abbott. 1. A freehold estate in lands, held of a superior lord, as a reward for services, and on condition of rendering some service in return f...
FEE-SIMPLE
62 N. 2. Law, 254, 41 Atl. 759, 42 L R. A. 572.
FEED
strengthen ez post facto. when it accrues feeds the estoppel.” mas v. Oliver, 5 Mood. & R. 202.
FELE, FEAL
L. Fr. Faithful. See
FELLATION
FELLOW. A.companion; one with whom we consort; one joined with another in some legal status or relation; a member of a college or corporate body.
Feller v. Gates, 40 Or
543, U7 Pac. 416, 56
FELO DE SE
or commission of a crime, but only: for the purpose of discovering their plans and confeder ates and securing evidence against them. See
FELON
his own Hfe, or who commits some unlawful or malicious act which results in his own death. Hale, P. C. 411; 4 Bl. Comm. 189;
Felrath, 98 Ala
176, 13 South. 485, 39 Am.
FEME
tinguished from a “misdemeanor,”..upon conviction for which no forfeiture followed. All indictable offenses are either felonies or misdemeanors, but a material part of the distinction is taken away by St. 33 & 34 Vie...
FEMICIDE
#0 to women deserted by their husbands, who do business as lon ot ca v. Rhenner, 1
FENCEMONTH, or DEFENSE
MONTH. In old English law. A _ period of time, occurring in the middle of summer, during which it was unlawful to hunt deer in the forest, that being their fawning season. Probably so called because the deer were then de...
FEODARUM CONSUETUDINES. The
customs of feuds. The name of a compilation of feudal laws and customs made at Milan in the twelfth century. It is the most ancient work on the subject, and was always regard-
FEODUM SIMPLEX
ed, on the continent of Europe, as possessing the highest authority.
FEODUM TALLIATUM
pure; and thus fee-simple is the same as a lawful inheritance, or pure inheritance.
Feodum talliatum, i
e., hsreditas in quandam certitudinem limitata. Litt. § 13. Fee-tail, c. e., an inheritance limited in a definite descent.
Ferguson v. Pittsburgh, 159 Pa
435, 28 Atl. 118; Grocers’ Ass’n v. Exton, 18 Ohio Cir. Ct. R. 321.
Fergusson
(Fergusson of) Kilgerran’s Seotch Session Cases.
FERLINGUS
FEONATIO. In forest law. The fawning season of deer.
Fernandez, 13 Tex
680.—Censo consignativo. A censo (q. v.) is called “consignativo” when he who receives the money assigns for the payment of the nsion (annuity) the estate the fee in which he reserves. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3207.—C...
Ferrier, 103 Ill
372, 43 Am. Rep. 10; Dennis v. Moses, 18 Wash. 537, 52 Pac. 333, 40 L. R.-
Ferris Sugar Mfg. Co
(C. C.) 78 Fed. 421;
Ferris v. Ferris, 8 Conn
168.—Corporal cath. An oath, the external solemnity of which consists in laying one’s hand ups the Gospels while the oath is administe to him. More generally, a solemn oath. The terms “corporal oath” and “solem...
Ferry Co
v. Pennsylvania, 114 U. S. 196, §
Fertilizer Co
v. Dunan, 91 Md. 144, 46 Atl. $47, 50 L. R. A. 401; Kemp v. Bank, 109 Fed. 48, 48 C. C. A. 213; Streshley v. Powell, 12 v. South Pub. Co., 4 Misc. Rep. 172, 28 N. Y. Supp. 675; Com. v. Reinoehl, 163 Pa. 287, 29 Atl. 806...
FERZ NATURZ
Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition. Animals which are by nature wild are so designated, by way of distinction from: such as are naturally tame. the latter being called “domite natura.”
FESTINUM REMEDIUM. Iat. A
speedy remedy. The writ of assise was thus characterized (in comparison with the less expeditious remedies previously avallable) by the statute of Westminster 2, (13 Edw.
Fetter v. Wilt, 46 Pa
460; State v. Simons, 61 Kap. 752, 60 Pac. 1052; Newland v.
FEU «
ice, makes his return in grain or money. Distinguished from “wardholding,”’ which is the military tenure of the country. Bell. —Feu annuals. The reddendo, or annual return from the vassal to a superior in a feu h...
FEU ET LIEV
Fr. In old French and Canadian law. Hearth and home. A term importing actual settlement upon land by a tenant.
Feud
(3d Ed.) 66; Broom, Max. 459.
FEUDUM
in its completeness, by William I., A. D. 1085.. though it may have existed in a rudimentary form among the Naxons before the Conquest. _ It formed the entire basis of the real-property law of England in medieval times; ...
Fia
832; Palen v. Ocean 660, 46 Atl. 774.
FIAT
(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 the doing of some legal act.
Fibre Co., 72 Fed
514, 18:C. ©. A. 662; Cochrane y. Deener, 94 U. S. 180, 24 L. Ed. 139.
FICTION
ly by the respective sheriffs, in the mohth of February, with the assistance of juries. These regulate the prices of grain stipulated to be sold at the fiar prices, or when no price has been stipulated. Ersk. 1, 4, 6. w...
FIDELITAS
Lat. Fealty, (q. v.)
FIDEM MENTIRI
Lat. To betray faith or fealty. A term used in feudal and old English law of a feudatory or feudal tenant who does not keep that fealty which he has sworn to the lord. Leg. Hen. I. c. 53.