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  • FELLATION
    See SODOMY.
  • FELLOW
    A companion; one with whom we consort; one joined with another in some legal status or relation; a member of a college or corporate body.
  • FELLOW-HEIR
    A co-heir; partner of the same inheritance.
  • FELLOW-SERVANTS
    "The decided weight of authority is to the effect that all who serve the same master, work under the same control, derive authority and compensation from the same common source, and are engaged in the same general business, though it may be in different grades or departments of it, are More...
  • FELO DE SE
    A felon of himself; a suicide or murderer of himself. One who deliberately and intentionally puts an end to his own life, or who commits some unlawful or malicious act which results in his own death. Hale, P. C. 411: 4 Bl. Comm. 189; Life Ass'n v. Waller, 57 Ga. More...
  • FELON
    One who has committed felony; one convicted of felony.
  • FELONIA
    Felony. The act or offense by which a vassal forfeited his fee. Spelman ; Calvin. Per feloniam, with a criminal intention. Co. Litt. 391. Felonia, ex vi termini significat quodlibet capitale crimen felleo animo perpetratnm. Co. Litt. 391. Felony, by force of the term, signifies any capital crime perpetrated with More...
  • FELONICE
    Feloniously. Anciently an indispensable word in indictments for felony, and classed by Lord Coke among those voces artis (words of art) which cannot be expressed by any periphrasis or circumlocution. 4 Coke, 39; Co. Litt 391a; 4 Bl. Comm. 307.
  • FELONIOUS
    Malignant; malicious; done with intent to commit a crime; having the grade or quality of a felony. People v. Moore, 37 Hun (N. Y.) 93; Alkman v. Com., 18 S. W. 938, 13 Ky. Law Bep. 894; State v. Bush, 47 Kan. 201, 27 Pac. 834, 13 L. R. A. More...
  • FELONIOUSLY
    With a felonious intent; with the intention of committing a crime. An indispensable word in modern indictments for felony, as felonice was in the Latin forms. 4 Bl. Comm. 307; State v. Jesse. 19 N. C. 300; State v. Smith, 31 Wash. 245, 71 Pac. 767; State v. Halpin, 16 More...
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