FIDES
Lat. Faith; honesty: confidence; trust; veracity; honor. Occurring in the phrases “dona fides,” (good faith,) “mala fides,” (bad faith,) and “uberrima fides,” (the utmost or most abundant good faith.)
Terms beginning with "F" (326 total)
FIDES SERVANDA
(usually by will) to a person, accompanied by a request or direction of the donor that the recipient will transfer the property to another, the latter being a person not capable of taking directly under the will or gift.
FIEF D’HAUBERT
Fr. In Norman feudal law. A fief or fee held by the tenure of knight-service; a knight’s fee. 2 Bi:
Fieming, 4 Ga
115, 48 Am. Dec. 210; Clapp v. Bromagham, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 553; Washburn v. Cutter, 17 Minn. 368 (Gil. 335).
FIERDING.CQURTS
that he will restore it to him—
FIERI
because four were instituted within every ihferior district or hundred. 3 Bl. Comm. 34.
FIERI FACIAS
(That you cause,to be made.) In practice. <A writ of execution commanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a judgment from the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor.
FIERI FECI
(I have caused to be made.) In practice. The name given to the return made by a sheriff or other officer toa writ of flert facias, where he has collected the whole, or a part, of the sum directed to be levied. 2 Tidd, Pr...
Fieta, lib
2, c. 44, § 2. 2, c. 3, § 9. 9. 2, c. 52, § 35.- 1, c. 47, § 18.
FIGHT. An encounter, with blows
or other personal violence, between two persons. See State v. Gladden, 73 N. C. 155; Carpenter v. People, 31 Colo. 284, 72 Pac. 1072; Coles v. New York Casualty Co., 87 App.
Fights of estates. Dig
50, 16, 86.—Jura re- In English law. Royal rights or privies. 1 Bl. Comm. 117, 119; 8 Bl. Comm. ura regia. In English law.
Fiint, 123 Mich
10, 81 N. W. 936, 47 L. R.
FILIATION
pugne.” The amount was one. hundred and twenty shillings. -Cowell. ;.
FILICETUM
in old English law. A ferny or bracky ground: a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 4b: Shep. Touch. 95.
FILIUS
Lat. A son; a child.
FILUM
Lat. In old practice. A file; 4 é., a thread or wire on which papers were strung, that being the ancient method ‘of filing.
FIN
Fr. An end, or limit; a limitation, or period of limitation. :
FINANCES
road. An imaginary line drawn through the middie of a road, and constituting the boundary between the owners of the land on each side. 2 Smith, Lead. Cas. (Am. Ed.) 98, note.
FINANCIER
(as the property or money which a state now owns) or dynamically, (as its income, revenue, or public resources.) Also the revenue or wealth of an individual. ‘
Finch, Law, b
1, cc. 3, no. 54. Common error sometimes passes current: as law. 3, c. 5. é 1, c. 3, no, 29. 1, c. 3, n. 16. 2, c. 6. 8, cc. 17. 1, c. 3, n. 4. Things are dissolved aa they be con- *tracted. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3...
FINE
which the lands in question become, or are acknowledged to be, the right of one of the parties. 2 Bl. Comm. 349; Christy v. Burch, 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258; First Nat. Bank v. convicted of crime or misdemeanor. Lancast...
FINE CAPIENDO PRO TERRIS. An
obsolete writ which lay for a person who, upon conviction by jury, had his lands and goods taken, and his body imprisoned, to be remitted his imprisonment, and have his lands and goods redelivered to him, on obtaining fa...
FINE NON CAPIENDO PRO PUI
CHRE PLACITANDO. An obsolete writ to inhibit. officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading.
FINE PRO REDISSEISINA CAPIEN
DO. An old writ that lay for the release of one imprisoned for a redisselsin, on payment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222.
FINIS
Lat. Anend; a fine; a boundary er terminus; a limit. Also in L. Lat., a fine (qd. v.) : :
FINIUM REGUNDORUM ACTIO. In
the civil law. Action for regulating bound- The name of an action which lay between those who had lands bordering on each other, to settle disputed boundaries. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 499. -
Finlay v. Dickerson, 29 Ill
20; Railway Co. v. Smith, 173 U. 8. 684, 19 Sup. Ct. 565, 43
Finley v. Hunter, 2 Strob. Eq
(S. C.) 210, note. Full court. In practice. A court in banc. A court duly organized with all the judges pre
Finn v. Spagnoli, 67 Cal
330, 7 Pac. 746; In re Chauncey, 32 Hun (N. Y.) 431; Bullard ‘vy. Kuhl, 54 Wis. 545, 11 N. W. 801; Spencer v. Thistle, 18 Neb. 229, 18 N. W. 214; State v. Brown, 638 Mo. 444; State v. Clifton, 57
Finnegan
29 Minn. 418, 13 N. W. 197; Brown v. Leavitt, 26 N. H. 495; Hinds v. Jones, 48
FIRE
Finis est amicabilis compositio et finalis concordia ex concensu et concordia domini regis vel justiciarum. Glan: lib. 8, c. 1. A fine is an amicable settlement and decisive agreement by consent and agreement of our lord...
FIRMARIUS
L. Lat. A fermor. A lessee of a term. Firmarti comprehend all such as hold by lease for life or lives or for year, by deed or without deed. 2 Inst. 144, 145; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 107.
FIRST
Firmior et potentior est operatio legis quam dispositicoc hominis. The operation of the law is firmer and more powerful {or efficacious] than the disposition of mun.
FIRST-CLASS
FIRST-OLASS. Of the most superior or excellent grade or kind; belonging to the head or chief or numerically precedent of several classes into which the general subject is divided.
Fischer, 15 Misc. Rep
410, 36 N. Y. Supp. 894. .
Fish. Pat
(or Fish. Pat. Cas.). Fisher’s United States Patent Cases.
Fish. Pat. Rep
fFisher’s United States Patent Reports. ; . Bish. Prise (or Pr. Cas.). Fisher's United States Prize Cases. ;
Fisher, 44 Mich
551, 7 N. W. 211; Sage v.
FISSURE VEIN
February 9, 1871, whose duties principally concern the preservation and increase throughout the country of fish suitable for food. Rev. St. royal. These were the whale and the sturgeon, which, when thrown ashore or caugh...
FISTUCA
erally extending indefinitely downward. See
Fitsgerald, 15 Fed. Cas
99; Jones v. Prospect Mountain Tunnel Co., 21 Nev. 339, 31
Fitts, 21 R. I. 286, 42 Atl
8638.—Town collestor. One of the officers of a town charged witb collecting the taxes assessed for town purposes. —Town commissioner. In some of the states where the town is the political unit the town commissioners ...
Fitualia annexa
2 Inst. 488. It belongs not to the secular judge to take cognizance of things which are merely spiritual.
Fitz Henry v. Munter, 33 Wash
629, 74 Pac. 1003; State v. Smith, 114 Mo. 180, 21 §. W. 493. P
Fitzgerald v. Ben, Ass’n, 39 App: Div
251. 56 Ne Y. senPe 1005; Stewart v. Drake, 9 N. J. Ww, :
Fitzgerald v. Cross, 30 Ohio St
444; In re Clarke, 74 Minn. 8, 76 N. W. 790; Herriman v. Menzies. 115 Cal. 16, 44 Pac. 660, 35
Fitzh, Nat. Brev
116; Co. Litt. 172; Griffith v. Willing, 3 Bin. (Pa.) 317; Travers v. 156. 145. 172. 117, E. The foundation of the modern action of account. 158; New Nat. Brev. 352. 269, A. 234, E; New Nat. Brev. 521. 75, 76. 1...
FIXTURE
1.4A fixture is a personal chattel substantially affixed to the land, but which may afterwards be lawfully removed therefrom by the party affixing it, or his representative, without the consent of the owner of the freeho...
Fl. & K. (or Fl. & Kel.)
een ly’s Irish Rolls Court Reports.
Fla
526; Walpole v. Ink, 9 Ohio, 144; People v. Livingston County, 43 Barb. (N. Y.) 234. 1, 14 South. 692. 433, 6 South. 455; Buchner v. Railroad 81.—Elected domicile. The domicile of parties fixed in a contract between...