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A fee, feod, or feud Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law.* The holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder on l reeholder Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Roman law. The elder brother of an emancipated pupil-lus, whose father had died leaving him still under fourteen years of age […]

The term is derived from the Roman law, and means (as a noun) a person holding the character of a trustee, or […]

Lat Faith; honesty; confidence; trust; veracity; honor, occurring in the phrases “bona fldes,” (good faith,) “mala fldes,” (bad faith,) and “uberrima fldes,” […]

An adjective having the same meaning as “fiduciary;’’ as, in the phrase “public or fiducial ofiice.” Ky. St. § 3752; Moss v. […]

See Insvb-ANCE Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat To betray faith or fealty. A term used in feudal and old English law of a feudatory or feudal tenant who […]

See Fide-Jussor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Fealty, (q. v Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the clvil law. To order a thing upon one’s faith; to pledge one’s self; to become surety for another. Fide-jubes? Fide-jubeo: […]

In Roman law. A guarantor; one who becomes responsible for the payment of another’s debt, by a stipulation which binds him to […]

In the civil law thls term corresponds nearly to our “cestui que trust.” It designates a person who has the real or […]

In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Founded on a fiction; having the character of a flctlon; false, feigned, or pretended Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A term derived from the Latin “fldci-commissartus,” and oc-casionally used by writers on equity juris-prudence as a substitute for the law French […]

In Roman law. A fiction; an assumption or supposition of the law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An assumptlon or supposition of law that something which is or may be false is true, or that a state of facts […]

The value of grain in the different counties of Scotland, fixed year Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(Lat. “Let it be done.”) In Eng-llsh practice. A short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to […]

Sp. in Spanish law, trust, con-fldence, and correlatively a legal duty or ob-ligatiou arising therefrom. The term is suffl-clentiy broad lu meanlng […]

lu Scotch law. He that has the fee or feu. The proprietor is termed “fiar,” In contradistinction to the life-renter. 1 Kames, […]

An abbreviation for fieri facias, (which see Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. To pledge one’s faith. Kelham Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. Feud or fee. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 2 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)