That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Falcidian law, was required to be left to the heir,, amounting to at least one-fourth
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In old English law. To mow. Falcate prata, to mow or cut grass in mead-ows laid In for hay. A customary service1 to the lord by hls inferior tenants
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In Spanish law. The Fal-cidian portion; the portion of an inheritance which could not be legally bequeathed away from the heir, viz., one-fourth
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Idle persons; idle livers; vagabonds. Cowell; Blount
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In old English law. A Jack-*et or close coat Blount
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As used in bonds of pub-lic aud private officers, this term imports not only honesty, but also a punctilious discharge of all the duties of the office, requiring com-petence, diligence, and attention, without any malfeasance or nonfeasance, aside from mere mistakes. State v. Chadwick, 10 or. 468; Hoboken v. Evans, 31 N. J. Law, 343; Har-ris v. Hanson, 11 Me. 245; American Bank’ v. Adams, 12 Pick. (Mass.) 306; Union Bank v. Clossey, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 273; Perry v. Thompson, 16 N. J. Law, 73
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In French law. A juridical fact one of the factors or ele-ments constitutive of an obligation
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1. Confidence; credit; reliance. Thus, an act may be said to be done “on the faith” of certain representations
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A deed enrolled, as a bargain and sale of freeholds. 1 Eeb. 568
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A fraudulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the de-ception of a third person
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Justly; rightly; equitably, wlth substantial correctness
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In French law. Bankrupt-cy; failure; the situation of a debtor who finds himself unable to fulfill his engage-ments. Code de Com. arts. 442, 580; Civil Code La. art. 3522
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In a general sense, deficiency, want, or lack; ineffectualness; inefficiency as measured by some legal standard; an un-successful attempt, white v. Pettijohn, 23 N. C. 55; State v. Butler, 81 Minn. 103, 83 N. W. 483; Andrews v. Keep, 38 Ala. 317
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In Saxon law. Malice; open and deadly hostility; deadly feud. The word designated the enmity between the family of a murdered man and that of his murderer, which was recognized, among the Teutonic peoples, as justification for vengeance taken by any one of the former upon any one of the latter
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1. The difference between “fall” and “refuse” is that the latter involves an act of the will, while the former may be an act of Inevitable necessity. Taylor v. Mason, 9 wheat. 344, 6 L. Ed. 101. See Stallings v. Thomas, 55 Ark. 326, 18 S. W. 184; Tele-graph Co. v. Irvin, 27 Ind. App. 62, 59 N. E. 327; Persons v. Hight, 4 Ga. 497
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A badge worn in popish times hy persons who had recanted and abjured what was then adjudged to be heresy, as an emblem of what they had merited. Cowell
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A faggot vote is where a man is formally possessed of a right to vote for members of parliament, without possessing the substauce which the vote should represent; as if he is enabled to buy a property, and at the same moment mort-gage it to its full vaiue for the mere sake of the vote. Such a vote is called a “faggbt vote.” See 7 & 8 wm. III. c. 25, S 7. whar-ton
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In old English law. The portlon brought by a wife to her hus-band, and which reverted to a widow, in case the heir of her deceased husband refused his consent to her second marriage; i. e., it re-verted to her family in case she returned to them, wharton
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Approved men who were strong-armed; habentes homines or rich men, men of substance; pledges or bonds-men, who, by Saxon custom, were bound to answer for each other’s good behavior. Cow-ell; Du Cange
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The col-lege or society of advocates in Scotland
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In old English law. A marriage gift coming from the father or brother of the bride
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The corps of professors, instructors, tutors, and lec-turers. To be distinguished from the board of trustees, who constitute the corporation
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