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Search Results for "F"
F
punishment, English law. Formerly felons were branded and
marked with
a hot iron, with this letter, on being admitted to the benefit of clergy.
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FACIO UT DES
A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs
when a
man agrees to perform anything for a price, either specifically mentioned
or left to the... more
FACIO UT FACIAS
A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs
when I agree with a man to do his work for him if he will... more
FACT
An action, a thing done. It is either simple or compound.
2. A fact is simple when it expresses a purely material act... more
FACTO
In fact, in contradistinction to the lawfulness of the thing, it
is applied to anything actually done. Vide Expostfacto.
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FACTOR
contracts. An agent employed to sell goods or merchandise
consigned or delivered to him by, or for his principal, for a compensation
commonly called factorage or commission.... more
FACTORAGE
The wages or allowances paid to a factor for his
services, it
is more usual to call this commissions. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1013, 2 Id.... more
FACTORY
Scotch law. A contract which partakes of a mandate and locatio
ad operandum, and which is in the English and American law books discussed
under the title... more
FACTUM
A deed. a mans own act and deed.
2. When a man denies by his plea that he made a deed... more
FACTUM
French law. A memoir which contains summarily the fact on
which a
contest has happened, the means on which a party founds his pretensions,
with the refutation of... more
FACULTY
canon law. A license, an authority. For example, the ordinary
having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this
power, which,... more
FACULTY
Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or pow-er. The term
faculty is
more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from
whom it springs,... more
FAILURE
A total defect, an omission, a non-performance. Failure also
signifies a stoppage of payment, as, there has been a failure to-day, some
one has stopped payment.
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FAILURE, OF ISSUE
When there is a want of issue to take an estate
limited over by an executory devise.
2. Failure of issue is... more
FAILURE OF RECORD
The neglect to produce the record after having
pleaded
it. When a defendant pleads a matter, and offers to prove it by the record,
and then pleads... more
FAINT PLEADER
A false, fraudulent, or collusory manner of pleading, to
the deception of a third person. 3 E. I., c. 19.
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FAIR
A privileged market.
2. In England, fairs are granted by the kings patent.
3. In the United States,... more
FAIR-PLAY MEN
About the year 1769, there was a tract of country in
Pennsylvania, situate between Lycoming creek and Pine creek, in which the
proprietaries prohibited the making... more
FAlR PLEADER
This is the name of a writ given, by the statute of
Marlebridge, 52 H. III., c. ii. Vide Beau Pleader.
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FAIT
conveyancing. A deed lawfully executed. Com. Dig . h. t., Cunn.
Dictl. h. t.
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