FLAGRANS
Lat. Burning; in actual perpetration.
Terms beginning with "F" (326 total)
Flan. & Kel. Flanagan
at Irish Rolls: Court Reports. ‘
Fleece, etc., Min. Co
v. Cable, ete., Min. Co., 12 Nev. 328; Gleeson v. Martin ite Min.
Fleet v. Hegeman, 14 Wend
(N. Y.) 43; State v. Taylor, 27 N. J. Law, 119, 72 Am. Dec. 347; Gillet v. Mason, 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 17.
Fleta, ‘lib.'5, ¢
22, § 18. : —Crassa negligentia. - Gross neglect;
Fleta, 1
2, c 27, § 5. 2, e. 12; Cowell. 2, c. 52, § 20. 6, ce 6, § 7.
Fleta, lib
2, c. 55, § 2. 5, c. 6, § 10. l 2, c. 56, § 1. 2, c. 60, § 19. 6, cc. 1; Co. Litt. 13a. , 5, c. 21, § L 2, a 64, 3 15. Setsitus in feodo, seised in fee. Fleta, lib. 3, c 7, § 1. 2, c. 57, § 18.—Imn foro s...
FLICHWiTE
FLECTA. A feathered or: fleet .-arrow, Cowell.
FLIGHT
’ FLIGHT. In criminal law. The act of one under accusation, who evades the law by voluntarily withdrawing himself. It is presumptive evidence of guilt. U. S. v.
Flope, 22 Pick
(Mass.) 1; Stevens v. Com., 4
FLUMEN
cluded. Similarly, the “floor of ‘the house” means the main part of the hall where the members sit, as distinguished from the galleries, or from the corridors or lobbies. In England, the floor of a court is that pa...
Flumina et portus
publica sunt, ideogque jus piscandi omnibus commune est. Rivers and ports are public. fore the right of fishing there is common to all, Day. Ir. K. B. 55; Branch, Princ.
FLUVIUS
Lat. er; flood; flood-tide.
FOCAGE
FOOALE. In old English law.: Firewood. The right of taking wood for the fire. Fire-bote. Cunningham.
Fogg. YFogg’s Reports, vols
32-837 New Hampshire.
FOIRTHOCHT
FOIRTHOOHT. In old Scotch law.
FOLIO
1. A leaf. In the ancient lawbooks it was the custom to number the leaves, : instead of the pages; hence a folio would include both sides of the leaf, or two pages. The references to these books are made by the number of...
FOLK-LAND; FOLK-MOTE. See
Foic-Lanpv;’ FoL_c-GEeMore. FOLLOW. To conform to, comply with,
Folkens v. Insurance Co., 98 Mo. App
480, 72 S. W. 120.—Assessment district. In taxation. Any subdivision of territory, whether the wkole or part of any municipality, in which by law a separate assessment of taxable property is made by the officers electe...
FOMINA VIRO CO-OPERTA. A mar
ried woman; a feme covert.
FONDS ET BIENS
Fr. In French law. Goods and effects. Adams v. Akerlund, 168
FOOT
1. A measure of length containing twelve inches or one-third of a yard.
FOOTGELD
‘-FOOTGELD. In the forest law. An »amercement for not cutting out the ball or cutting off the claws of a dog's.feet, (expeditating him.) To be quit of footgeld is to have the privilege of keeping dogs in the forest un...
FOR
Fr. In French law. A tribunal. Le for interieur, the interior forum; the tribunal of conscience. Poth. Obl. pt. 1, cc. 1, $1, art. 3, § 4.
Forb. Inst
pt. 1, b. 1, ce. 2. tit. 2. 2 Kames, pt. 2, p. 153. pt. 2, p. 101.
FORCE
where an assignee is obliged to sue in the name of his assignor, the suit is entitled “A. for use of B. v. C.” For enjoyment or employment without destruction. A loan “for use” is one in which the bailee has the ...
FORCE MAJEURE
Fr. In the law of insurance. Superior or irresistible force.
FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recover possession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases does not involve title, but is confined to the actual and pea...
Ford y. State
7 Ind. App. 567, 35 N. 34;
Ford, 14 Ill
883; Bunce v. Reed, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 352.
FORDANNO
who, after entering peaceably upon real property, turns out by force, threats, or menacing conduct the party in possession. Code Civil Proc. Cal. § 1159. who first assaulted another.
FORE. Sax. Before
Fr. Out Kelham. FORECLOSE. To shut out; to bar.
FOREIG?
FOREHAND RENT. In English law. Rent payable in advance; or, more properly, a species of premium or bonus paid by the tenant on the making of the lease, and particularly on the renewal of leases by ecclesiastical corporat...
FOREIGNER
“Jurisdiction,” “Jury,” “Minister,” “Plea,” “Port,” “State,” “Vessel,” and “Voyage,” see those titles. -
FORESTALLING THE MARKET
Loirdis assesouris forsaidis.” chandise or provision on its way to the market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; or the dissuading persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or pers...
FORESTALLING THE MARKET. The
act of the buying or contracting for any mer-
FORETHOUGHT FELONY
law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 50; Bell.
FORFEITURE
in the owner of lands, tenements, or heredita: ments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured a8 a recy ompense for the wrong which he alone, or the public together with himself, hath ...
FORGABULUM, or FORGAVEL. A
quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob.
FORINSEOCUS
Lat. Foreign; exterior; outside; extraordinary. Servitium forinsecum, the payment of aid, scutage, and other extraordinary military services. Forinsecum manerium, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside the bars...
FORIS
Lat. Abroad: out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic.
Forisfaccre, i
e., extra legem seu consuetudimem facere. Co. Litt. 59. Forisfacere, 7. e., to do something beyond law or custom.
FORISFACERE
Lat. To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of some criminal or illegal act. To confiscate.
FORISFACTUS
oe Sil of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1861. Mozley & Whitley.
FORISFAMILIARE
FORISFAMILIARE. In old English and Scotch law. Literally, to put out of a family, (forts familiam ponere.) To portion off a son, so that he could have no further claim upon his father. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 8.
FORJURER
L. Fr. In old English law. to forswear; to abjure.:
FORM
1. A model or skeleton of an instrument to‘be used in a judicial proceeding, containing the principal necessary matters, the proper technical terms or phrases, and whatever else is necessary to make it formally correct...
FORMA
Lat. Form; the prescribed form of judicial proceedings. —Forma et figura judicii. The form and shape of “fadgment or judicial action. 3 BI.
Formal words in old appeals, Fieta, lib
1, c 31, § 6; Id. ec. 35, § 3. 7
FORMATA
defect is one of substance. If the matter of the plea is good and sufficient, but is inartificially or defectively pleaded, the defect is one of form.