A apecial privilege conferred by government npon an individual or corporation, and which does not belong to the citizens of the country generally, of common right. It is essential to the character of a franchise that it should be a grant from the sovereign authority, and in this country no franchise can be held which is not derived from a law of the state. In England, a franchise is defined to be a royal privilege in the hands of a subject. In this country, it is a privilege of a public nature, which cannot be exercised without a legislative graut. See Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 595, 10 L. Ed. 274; Dike v. State, 38 Minn. 306, 38 N. W. 95; Chicago Board of Trade v. People, 91 111. 82; Lasher v. People, 183 111. 226, 0$ N. E. 663, 47 L. R. A. 802, 75 Am. St. Rep. 103; Southampton v. Jessup, 162 N. Y. 122, 56 N. B. 538; Thompson v. People, 23 wend. (N. Y.) 578; Black River Imp. Co. v. Hol-way, 87 wis. 584, 59 N. W. 126; Central Pac
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In French feudal law. An allod; a free lnheritance; or an estate held free of any services except such ad* were due to the sovereign
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Fr. Expense; charges; costs. Frais d’un prods, costs of a suit
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A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents
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Lat. The breaking or wreck of ships; the same as naufragium, (q. v
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Lat. Fragments. A name sometimes applied (especially in cita-tions) to the Digest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, as being made up of numerous extracts or “fragments” from the writings of various jurists. Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 74
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As applied to tracts of land, particularly townships, sections, quar-ter sections, and other divisions according to the government survey, and aiso mining claims, this term means that the exterior boundary lines are laid down to include the whole of such a division or such a claim, hut that tbe tract in question does not measure up to the full extent or include the whole acreage, because a portion of it is cut ofT by an overlapping survey, a river or lake, or some other external interference. See Tolies-ton Club v. State, 141 Ind. 197, 38 N. E. 214; Parke v. Meyer, 28 Ark. 287; Goltermann ▼. Schiermeyer, 111 Mo. 404, 19 S. W. 487
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Lat. A breaking; division; fraction; a portion of a thing less than the whole
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A breaking, or breaking up; a fragment or broken part; a portion of a thing, less than the whole. Jory v. Pal-ace Dry Goods Co., 30 or. 196, 46 Pac. 786
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A form of socialism. See 1 Mill, Pol. Ec. 260
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Such fowls as are preserved under the game laws in war-rens. According to Manwood, these are partridges and pheasants. According to Coke, they nre partridges, rails, quails, wood-cocks, pheasants, mallards, and herons. Co. Litt. 233
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The seas surrounding Eng-land. These were divided into the western, including the Scotch aud Irish; the North? ern, or North sea; the Eastern, being the German ocean; the Southern, being the British channel
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Fr. To fork. This was a method of delaying an action anciently re-sorted to by defendants wben two of them were Joined in the suit. Instead of appear-ing together, each would appear in turn and cast an essoin for tbe other, thus postponing tbe trial
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Fr. In old French iaw. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned by the seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread for baking. Also the proprietary right to main-tain such an oven
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The face of a writ-ten Instrument. That which is contained on the face of a deed (without auy aid from the knowledge of the circumstances under which it is made) is said to be within its four corners, because every deed is still supposed to he written on one entire skin, and so to have but four corners
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Founderous; out of re-pair, as a road. Cro. Car. 366
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A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or
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Based upon; arising from, growing out of, or resting upon; as in the expressions “founded in fraud,” “founded on a consideration,” “founded on contract,” and the like. See In re Grant Shoe Co., 130 Fed. 881, 06 C. C. A. 78; State v. Morgan, 40 Conn. 46; Palmer v. Preston, 45 Vt. 158, 12 Am. Rep. 191; Steele v. Hoe, 14 Adol. & El. 431; In re Morales (D. C.) 105 Fed. 761
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The person who endows an eleemosynary corporation or institution, or supplies the funds for Its establishment. See Foundation
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In Hindu law. Under the Mogul government a magistrate of the police over a large district, who took cognizance of all criminal matters within his jurisdiction, and sometimes was employed as receiver general of the revenues, wharton
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The founding or build-ing of a college or hospital. The incorpora-tion or endowment of a college or hospital is the foundation; and he who endows it with land or other property is the founder. Dart-mouth College v. woodward, 4 wheat. 667, 4 L. Ed. 629; Seagrave’s Appeal, 125 Pa. 362, 17 Atl. 412; Union Baptist Ass’n v. Ilunn, 7 Tex. Civ. App. 249, 26 S. W. 755
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ND. Land given, assigned, or allotted to the finding of food or victuals for any person or persons; as in monasteries for the monks, etc. CoweU; Blount
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