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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. 1018. The return, os actuall...

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.

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 or town, and is not included ...

FRAGMENTA

Lat. Fragments. <A name sometimes applied (especially in citations) to the Digest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Ctvilis of Justinian, as being made up of numerous extracts or “fragments” from the writings of various jurists. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ...

French v. Edwards, 9 Fed. Cas

780.—Supplemental bill. In equity pleading. A bill filed in addition to an original bill, in order to supply some defect in its original frame or structure. It is the appropriate remedy where the matter sought to be supplied cannot be introduced by...

Furgeson, 29 Ind. App

144, 64 N. E. 49.—Attorney of record. The one whose name is entered on the record of an action or suit as the attorney of a designated party thereto. Delaney v. Husband, 64 N. J. Law, 275, 45 Atl. 265.—Attorney of the wards and liveries. In Engli...

Garner vy. State, 76 Miss

515, 25 South. 363. —Collateral dmpeachment. A_ collateral impeachment of a judgment or decree is an attempt made to destroy or evade its effect as an estoppel, by reopening the merits of the cause or by showing reasons why the peement should not h...

Gregory, 108 La

648, 32 South. 986; Smith v. Fyler, 2 Hill (N. Y.) 649; Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 8556. ; —Certain In feudal and old Wnglish law. Such services as were stinted (limited or defined) in quantity, and could not exceeded on any pretense; as to pay a sta...

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...