FABRICARE
Lat. To make. Used in old English law of a lawful coining, and also of an unlawful making or counterfeiting of coin. See 1 Salk. 842.
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FAGGOT VOTES
' FAGGOT VOTES. A faggot vote is where a man is formally possessed of a right to vote for members of parliament, without
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 embodying the compact made between th...
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-
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.
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.
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 ssculari. 1, c. 35, 8§ 1, 2 ...
FOCAGE
FOOALE. In old English law.: Firewood. The right of taking wood for the fire. Fire-bote. Cunningham.
FORUM
Lat. A court of justice, or judicial tribunal; a place of jurisdiction ; a place where a remedy is sought; a place of litigation. 3 Story. 347.
FRACTIO
Digest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Ot vtlis of Justinian, the several extracts from juristic writings of which it 1s composed being so called. Lat. A breaking; division; fraction; a portion of a thing less than the whole.
FRAOTURA NAVIUM
Lat. The breaking or wreck of ships; the same as naufragium, (q. v.)
Freem. K.B
Freeman’s English King’s Bench Reports. ;
FUNDAMENTAL ERROR. See E&ROB
FUNDAMENTAL LAW. The law which determines the constitution of government in a state, and prescribes. and regulates the manner of its exercise; the organic law of a state; the constitution.
FUSTIS
used in making livery of seisin. 40.
FYRD
future delivery, but where in fact none is ever intended or executed. The nominal seller does not have or expect to have the stock or merchandise he purports to sell, nor. does the nominal buyer expect to receive it or to pay the price. Instead of th...
Gaither, 46 La. Ann
286, 15 South 50.— Common-law procedure acts. Three acts of parliament, passed in the years 1852, 1854. and 1860, respectively, for the amendment of the ptocedure in the common-law courts. The common-law procedure act of 1852 is St. 15 & 16 Vict. e...
Garr, 65 Hun
179, 19 N. Y. Supp. 992; People v. McKane, 78 Hun, 154, 28 N. Y. Supp. 981. —Foreign jurisdiction. Any jurisdiction foreign to that of the forum. Also the exercise by a state or nation of jurisdiction beyond its own territory, the right being acqui...
GENERAL
dition. A “ridgling” (a half-castrated horse) is not a gelding, but a horse, within the denomination of animals in the statutes. Brisco v. State, 4 Tex. App. 219, 30 Am. Rep. 162. colonia] legislature of Massachusetts grew out of the general cou...
Gerke v. Purcell, 25 Ohio St
229.—School beard. <A board of municipal officers charged with the administration of the affairs of the public schools. They are commonly organized under the general laws of the state, and fall within the class of guaes corporations, sometimes cote...
Girard Nat. Bank, 109 Pa
356. But the term “foreign attachment” more properly belongs to the process otherwise familiarly known as “garnishment.” It was a peculiar and ancient remedy open to creditors within the jurisdiction of the city of London, by which they were ...
GLADIUS
Lat. <A sword. An anctent emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls or comites {the king’s attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were made by being girt with swords, (gladio succincti.)
GLOUCESTER, STATUTE OF. The
statute is the 6 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions. i
Gold
(or Goldes.). Goldesborough’s or Gouldsborough’s English King’s Bench Re- ‘ports.
GOVERNMENT
Van Patten v. Leonard, 55 Iowa, 520, 8 N. W. 334; Putnam v. Westcott, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 76.” 1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is ex- ercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested wi...
Gray v. Bennett, 3 Metce
(Mass. ] 527 ;) or may declare what shall be taken to be the true meaning and intention of a previous statute, though in the latter case such enactments are more commonly called “expository statutes.”
GRESSUME
GREEN CLOTH. In English law. A board or court of justice held in the countinghouse of the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferior officers. It takes its name from the green cloth spread over the board at which...
GROWING CROP
GROSSE BOIS. Timber. Cowell. hold, and passes with a sale of it. Wilkingon v. Ketler, 69 Ala. 435.
Habeas Corpus
Lat. (You have the body.) The name given to a variety of writs, (of which these were anciently the emphatic words,) having for their object to bring a party before a court or judge. In common usage, and whenever these words are used alone, they are u...
HABILIS
Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of authority of the king.) Du Cange.
Handy, 4 Md. Ch
237.—jLawful authorities. The expression ‘“Jawful authorities,” used in our treaty with Spain, refers to persons who exercised the power of making grants by authority of the crown. Mitchel v. U. S., 9 Pet. 11, 9 L. Ed. 283.— Lawful discharg...