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  • FERIAL DAYS
    Holidays; also weekdays, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell.
  • FERITA
    In old European law. A wound; a stroke. Spelman.
  • FERLING
    In old records. Tbe fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borough.
  • FERLINGATA
    A fourth part of a yard-land.
  • FERLINGUS
    A furlong. Co. litt 5b.
  • FERM, OR FEARM
    A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell.
  • FERME
    A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by Indeuture or lease. Plowd. 195; Vicat See FARM.
  • FERMENTED LIQUORS
    Beverages produced by, or which have undergone, a process of alcoholic fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but not spirituous or distilled liquors. State v. Lemp, 19 Mo. 391; State v. Biddle, 54 N. H. 383; People v. Foster, 64 More...
  • FERMER , FERMOR
    A lessee; a farmer. One who holds a term, whether of lands or an incorporeal right, such as customs or revenue.
  • FERMIER
    In French law. One who farms any public revenue.
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