EXPENSIS MILITUM NON LEVAN
DIS. An ancient writ to prohibit the sheriff from levying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands in ancient demesne. Reg. Orig. 261.
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EXPLETA, EXPLETIA, or EXPLE
OIA. In old records. The rents and profits of an estate.
Extenders or appraisers. The name
of certain officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was their duty to make a survey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, and then to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the divi...
EXTENTA MANERII
(The extent or survey of a manor.) The title of a statute passed 4 Edw. I. St. 1; being a sort of direction for making a survey or terrier of a manor, and all its appendages. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 140.
EXTERUS
Lat. A foreigner or alien; one born abroad. The opposite of civis.
EXTRA-DOTAL PROPERTY. In Lou
isiana this term is used to designate that property :which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called “paraphernal property.” Civ. Code La. art. 23165. Fleitas v. Richardson, 147 U. S. 550, 13 Sup.
FACTOR
1. A commercial agent, employed by a principal to sell merchandise consigned to him for that purpose, for: and in behalf of the principal, but usually in his own name, being intrusted with the possession and control of the goods, and being remunerate...
FAINT (or FEIGNED) ACTION. In
old English practice. An action was 80 called where the party bringing it had no title to recover, although the words of the writ were true; a false action was properly where the words of the writ were false. Litt. $ 689; Co. Litt. 361. : ‘
FAIR
COMPILE. To compile is to copy from various authors into one work. Between a compilation and an abridgment there is a clear distinction. A compilation consists of selected extracts from different authors; an abridgment is a condensation of the views ...
FAOIES
Lat. The face or countenance; the exterior appearance or view; hence, contemplation or study of a thing on its external or apparent side. Thus, prima facie means at the first inspection, on a preliminary or exterior scrutiny. When we speak of a “pr...
FARM
FARDEL OF LAND. In old English Jaw. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy Says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton. certain rént in’ farm; Fe c., in agricultural produce.—Farm ou...
FARMER
1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called “farmer.” This word implies no mystery, except it be that of pushengues Cunningham; Cowell.
FAUBOURG
FAUBOURG. In French law, and’ in Louisiana. joining the principal city; a suburb. See City Council of Lafayette vy. Holland, 18
FAUCES TERRZ
(Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclosing a portion or arm of the sea within them. 1 Kent, Comm. 367, and note; Hale, De Jure
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.
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 Trinidad, 7 Wheat. 339, 5 L. E...
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 for it. The true meaning of the...
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.—Censo enfiteutico. In Spanish a...
Fetter v. Wilt, 46 Pa
460; State v. Simons, 61 Kap. 752, 60 Pac. 1052; Newland v.
FEU ET LIEV
Fr. In old French and Canadian law. Hearth and home. A term importing actual settlement upon land by a tenant.
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.
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.
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.
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, n. 7. 3, « 1, n. 12.
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. -
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 caught near the coast of England, b...
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 constitute a board of administ...
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. 122, L; Hopkins v. Wright, 17 T...