A mar- FOIRFAULT. In old Scotch law. To ried woman; a feme covert. forfeit 1 How. State Tr. 027
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In medical jurisprudence. An unborn child. An infant in ventre sa m&re
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In old Engllsh law. Fog-gage or fog; a kind of rank grass of late growth, and not eaten in summer. Spelman; Cowell
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In medical jurisprudence. Destruction of the ftetus; the act by which criminal abortion is produced. 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133
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In the civil law. The pro-duce of animals, and the fruit of other prop-erty, which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property by virtue of his right. Btfwyer, Mod. Clvil Law, c. 14, p. 81
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In international law. A treaty; a league; a compact
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Lat in the clvll law. Interest on money; the lending of money on lnterest
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Food for horses or cattle. In ‘eudal law, the term also denoted a preroga-tive of the prince to be provided with corn, etc., for his horses by his subjects in his wars
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Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell
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In old Engllsh law. Firewood. The rlght of taking wood for the fire. Fire-bote. Cunningham
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In old English law. A run-away; fugltive; one escaped from justice, or who has no “hlaford
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In oid English law. The offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown
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on a criminal trial in former times, it was usual after a verdict of not guilty to inquire also, “Did he fly for it?” This practice was abolished by the 7 ft 8 Geo. IV., c. 28, t 5. wharton
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In railroading, a flying switch is made by uncoupling the cars from the engine while in motion, and throw-ing the cars onto the side track, by turning the switch, after the engine has passed it upon the main track. Greenleaf v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 29 Iowa, 39, 4 Am. Rep. 181; Baker v. Railroad Co., 122 Mo. 533, 26 S. W. 20
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Lat. A river; a public river; flood ; flood-tide
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In old English law. Flow. Per fluxum et refluxum maris, by the flow and reflow of the sea. Dal. pl. 10
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In Roman law. A servi* tude which conslsts in the right to conduct the rain-water, collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house or
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wild fowl; water-fowl. 11 East, 571, note
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This term has ac-quired a definite and specific meaning in latv. It commonly imports raising and set-ting back water on another’s land, by a dam placed across a stream or water-course which is the natural drain and outlet for surplus water on such land. Call v. Middle-sex County Com’rs, 2 Gray (Mass.) 235
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A name for the goods which float upon the sea when cast overboard for the safety of the ship, or when a ship is sunk. Distinguished from “jet-sam” and “ligan.” Bract, llb. 2, c. 5; 5 Coke, 106; 1 Bl. Comm. 292
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In oid English law. High-water mark; flood-mark. 1 And. 88.89
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