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  • FIELDAD
    In Spanish law. Sequestration. This is allowed in six cases by the Spanish law where the title to property is in dispute. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit 3, 1. 1.
  • FIERDING COURTS
    Ancient Gothic courts of an inferior jurisdiction, so called because four were instituted within every inferior district or hundred. 3 BL Comm. 34.
  • FIERI
    Lat. To he made; to be done. See IN FIERI.
  • FIERI FACIAS
    (That you cause,to be made.) In practice. A writ of execution commanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a judgment from the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor. -Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiastic!*. When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that More...
  • FIERI FECI
    (I have caused to be made.) In practice. The name given to the return made by a sheriff or other officer to a writ of fieri facias, where he has collected the whole, or a part, of the sum directed to be levied 2 Tidd, Pr. 1018. The return, as More...
  • FIFTEENTHS
    In English law. This was originally a tax or tribute, levied at intervals by act of parliament, consisting of one-fifteenth of all the movable property of the subject or personalty in every city, township, and borough. Under Edward III., the taxable property was assessed, and the value of its fifteenth More...
  • FIGHT
    An encounter, with blows, or other personal violence, between two persons. See State v. Gladden, 73 N. C. 155; Carpenter v. People, 31 Colo. 284, 72 Pac. 1072; Coles v. New York Casualty Co., 87 App. Div. 41, 83 N.. Y. Supp. 1063.
  • FIGHTWITE
    Sax. A mulct or fine for making a quarrel to the disturbance of the peace. Called also by Cowell "forisfactura pagnm." The amount was one hundred and twenty shillings. -Cowell. .
  • FILACER
    An officer of the superior courts at Westminster, whose duty it was to file the writs on which he made process. There were fourteen filacers, and it was their duty to make out all original process. Cowell; Blount The office was abolished in 1837.
  • FILARE
    In old English practice. To file Townsh. PI. 67.
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