“The decided weight of authority is to the effect that all who serve the same master, work under the same control, derive authority and compen-satlon from tlie same common source, and are engaged in the same general business, though it may be in different grades or departments of it, are fellow-servants, who take the risk of each other’s negligence.” 2 Thomp. Neg. p. 1026, § 31. And see McAndrews v. Burns, 39 N. J- Law, 119; Jnstice v. Pennsylvania Co., 130 Ind. 321, 30 N. E. 303; wright v. New York Cent. R. Co., 25 N. Y. 565; Glover v. Kansas City Bolt Co., 153 Mo. 327, 55 S. W. 88; Brunell v. Southern Pac. Co., 34 or. 256, 56 Pac. 129; Doughty v. Penobscot Log Driving Co., 76 Me. 146; McMaster v. 111-inois Cent. R. Co., 65 Miss. 264, 4 South. 59, 7 Am; St. Rep. 653: Daniels v. Union Pac. Ry. Co.. 6 Utah, 357, 23 Pac. 762; Weeks v. Scharer, 129 Fed. 335, 64 C. C. A, 11
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A-companion; one with whom we consort; one joined with another in some legal status or relation; a member of a col-lege or corporate body
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Fictitious; pretended; sup-posititlous; simulated
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In Saxon law. one bound for another by oath; a sworn brother. A friend bound in the decennary for the good behavior of another, one who took the place of the deceased. Thus, if a person was murdered, the recompense due from the murderer went to the fclagus of tlie slain, iu default of parents or lord. Cunniugham
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In old English law. A thlef caught while escaping with the stolen goods in his possession. Spelman
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The name given to certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the twelfth cen-tury to the middle of the sixteenth, usurping many of the functions of the governments which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdictlon. Enc. Brit. Such a court existed in westphnlia (though wlth greatly diminished powers) until finally sup-pressed in 1811
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An estate tail; an estate of inheritance given to a man and the heirs of his body, or limited to certain classes of pnr-tlcular heirs. It corresponds to the feud uni talliatum- Qf the feudal law, aud the Idea is believed to have been borrowed from the Ro-mau law, where, by way of fidei commissa, lands might be entailed upon children and freedmen and their descendants, with restric-tions as to alienation. 1 washb. Real Prop. *66. For the varieties and special characteristics of thia kind of estate, see Tail
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To lend additional support; to strengthen ex post facto. “The interest when it accrues feeds the estoppel.” Christmas v. oliver, 5 Mood. & R. 202
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This is a species of tenure, where land is held of another in perpetuity at a yearly rent, without fealty, homage, or other services than such as are specially corn-prised in the feoffment It corresponds very nearly to the “emphyteusis” of the Roman law
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Among the ancient Romans, that order of priests who discharged tiie duties of ambassadors. Subsequently their du-tles appear to have related more particular-ly to the declaring war and peace. Calvin
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Certain established festivals or holidays In the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently uded as the dates of legal Instruments, and in England the quar-ter-days, for paying rent, are four feast-days. The terms of the courts, in England, before 1875, were fixed to begin on certain days determined with reference to the occurrence of four of the chief feasts
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The nearest approach to a system of International law known to the ancient world. It was a branch of Roman Jurisprudence, concerned with embassies, declarations of war, and treaties of peace. It received this name from the feciales, (q. v.,) who were charged with its administration
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Doing, or making, as, in the term “damage feasant,” (doing damage or Injury,) spoken of cattle straying upon another’s land
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Doer; maker. Feasors del estaiute, makers of the statute. Dyer, 3b. Also used in the compound term, “tort-feasor,” one who commits or is guilty of a tort
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A doing; the doing of an act See Malfeasance; Misfeasance; Non-feasance
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Faithful. Tenants by knight serv-ice swore to thelr lords to be feal and leal
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A right in Scot-land, slmllar to the rlght of turbary in Eng-land, for fuel, etc
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In old English law. False; counterfeit. Faux action, a false actlon. Lltt. | 688. Faux money, counterfeit money. SL westm. 1, c. 15. Faux pegs, false weights. Britt c. 20. Faux serement, a false oath. 8t. westm. 1, c. 38
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