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  • FLAG
    A national standard on which are certain emblems; an ensign; a banner. It is carried by soldiers, ships, etc., and commonly displayed at forts and many other suitable places. -Flag;, duty of the. This was an ancient ceremony in acknowledgment of British sovereignty over the British seas, by which a More...
  • FLAGELLAT
    Whipped; scourged. An entry on old Scotch records. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 7.
  • FLAGRANS
    Lat. Burning; raging; in actual perpetration. -Flagrans helium. A war actually going on. -Flagrans crimen. In Roman law. A fresh or recent crime. This term designated a crime in the very act of its commission, or while it was of recent occurrence.-Flagrante hello. During an actual state of war.-Flagrante delloto. More...
  • FLAGRANT DELIT
    In French law. A crime which is in actual process of perpetration or which has just been committed. Code d'lnstr. Crim. art. 41.
  • FLAGRANT NECESSITY
    A case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act as an assault to remove a man from impending danger.
  • FLASH CHECK
    A check drawn upon a banker by a person who has no funds at the banker's and knows that such is the case.
  • FLAT
    A place covered with water too shallow for navigation with vessels ordinarily used for commercial purposes. The space between high and low water mark along the edge of an arm of the sea, bay, tidal river, etc. Thomas v. Hatch, 23 Fed. Cas. 946; Church v. Meeker, 34 Conn. 424; More...
  • FLAVIANUM JUS
    In Roman law. The title of a book containing the forms of actions, published by Cneius Flavius. A. U. C. 449. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 39. Calvin.
  • FLECTA
    A feathered or fleet arrow. Cowell.
  • FLEDWITE
    A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been an outlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley. The liberty to hold court and take up the amercements for beating and striking. Cowell. The fine set on a fugitive as More...
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