In old English law. Flight. It is of two kinds: (1) Fuer in fnit. or in facto, where a person does apparently and corporally flee; (2) fuer in leg. or in lege
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Sax. In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Lltt. 5b
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Hearth money. A tax laid upon each fire-place or hearth. An imposition of a shilling for every hearth, levied by Edward III. in the dukedom of Aquitaine. Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 324
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in Spanish law. Fruits; products; produce; grains; profits, white. New Recop. h. 1, tit. 7, c. 5. § 2
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In old English law. The affording harbor and entertainment ■ to any one
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A piece or par-cel of land lying by Itself. Co. Litt. 5b
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In old records. A place overgrown with shrubs and; bushes. Spel-man; Blonnt
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Sax. The first payment made to the kindred of a slain person in rec-ompense for his murder. Blount
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The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food
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In the civil law. Grain. That which grows in an ear. Dig. 50, 16, 77
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In International law. That portion of the territory of any country which lies close along the border line of another country, and so “fronts” or faces it
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In the civil law. Anything produced from vines, underwood, chalk-pits, stone-quarries. Dig. 50, 16, 77
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FRONTAGER. in Eng-lish law a frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to the liability of frontagers on streets to contribute to-wnrds the expense of paving, draining, or other works on the highway carried out by a local authority, in proportion to the front-age of tlieir respective tenements. Sweet
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Sax. Peace, security, or protec-tion. This word occurs in many compound terms used in Anglo-Saxon law
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An answer or plea is called “frivolous” when it is clearly insufli-cient on its face, and does not controvert the material points of the opposite pleading, and is presumably interposed for mere pur-poses of delay or to embarrass the plaintiff. Erwin v. Lowery, 64 N. C. 321; Strong v. Sproul, 53 N. V. 499; Gray v. Gidiere, 4 Strob. (S. C.) 442; Peacock v. williams (C. C.) 110 Fed. 916
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Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman
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Fresh uncultivated ground. Mon. Angl. t. 2, p. 56. Fresh; not salt. Reg. orig. 97. Recent or new. See Fbesu, and sub-titles thereunder
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A suit brought by a creditor in chancery agninst an executor or administrator, being really a suit hy the executor or administrator, in the name of a creditor, against himself, in order to compel the creditors to take an equal distribution of the assets. 2 Williams, Ex’rs, 1915
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In old English law. An outlaw; so called because he was deuled all help of friends. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 12
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In English law. Associations supported by subscrip-tion, for the relief and maintenance of the members, or their wives, children, relatives, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. The statutes regulat-ing these societies were consolidated and amended by St. 38 & 39 Vlct. c. 60. wharton
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