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  • FIRMA
    In old English law. The contract of lease or letting; also the rent (or farm) reserved upon a lease of lands, which was frequently payable in provisions, but sometimes in money, in which latter case it was called "albo flrma," white rent. A messuage, with the house and garden belonging More...
  • FIRMAN
    A Turkish word denoting a decree or grant of privileges, or passport to a traveler.
  • FIRMARATIO
    The right of a tenant to his lands and tenements. Cowell.
  • FIRMARIUM
    In old records. A place in monasteries, and elsewhere, where the poor were received and supplied with food. Spelman. Hence the word "infirmary."
  • FIRMARIUS
    L. Lat. A fermor. A lessee of a term. Firtnarii comprehend all such as hold by lease for life or lives or for year, by deed or without deed. 2 Inst. 144, 145; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 107.
  • FIRMATIO
    The doe season. Also a supplying with food. Cowell.
  • FIRME
    In old records. A farm. Firmior et potentior est oporatio legis quam dispositio nominis. The operation of the law is firmer and more powerful [or efficacious] than the disposition of man. Co. Litt 102a.
  • FIRMITAS
    In old English law. An assuranee of some privilege, by deed or charter.
  • FIRMLY
    A statement that an affiant "firmly believes" the contents of the affidavit Imports a strong or high degree of belief, and is equivalent to saying that he "verily" believes it. Bradley v. Eccles, 1 Browne (Pa.) 258; Thompson v. White, 4 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 137. The operative words in More...
  • FIRMURA
    In old English law. Liberty to scour and repair a mill-dam, and carry away the soil, etc. Blount
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