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  • FLOATABLE
    Used for floating. A floatable stream is a stream used for floating logs, rafts, etc. Gerrish v. Brown, 51 Me. 260, 81 Am, Dec. 569; Gaston v. Mace, 33 W. Va. 14, 10 S. E. 60, 5 L. R. A. 392, 25 Am. St. Rep. 848; Parker v. Hastings, 123 More...
  • FLOATING CAPITAL
    (or circulating capital.) The capital which is consumed at each operation of production and reappears transformed into new products. At each sale of these products the capital is represented in cash, and It Is from its transformations that profit is derived. Floating capital includes raw materials destined for fabrication, such More...
  • FLOATING DEBT
    By this term is meant that mass of lawful and valid claims against the corporation for the payment of which there is no money in the corporate treasury specifically designed, nor any taxation nor other means of providing money to pay particularly provided. People v. Wood, 71 N. Y. 374; More...
  • FLODE-MARK
    Flood-mark, high-water mark. The mark which the sea, at flowing water and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount
  • FLOOR
    A section of a building between horizontal planes. Lowell v. Strahan, 145 Mass. 1, 12 N. E. 401, 1 Am. St Rep. 422. A term used metaphorically, in parliamentary practice, to denote the exclusive right to address the body in session. A member who has been recognized by the chairman, More...
  • FLORENTINE PANDECTS
    A copy of the Pandects discovered, accidentally about the year 1137, at Amalphl, a town in Italy, near Salerno. From Amalphl, the copy found its way to Pisa, and, Pisa having submitted to the Florentines In 1406, the copy was removed in great triumph to Florence. By direction of the More...
  • FLORIN
    A coin originally made at Florence, now of the value of about two English shillings.
  • FLOTAGES
    1. Such things as by accident swim on the top of great rivers or the sea. Cowefl. 2. A commission paid to water bailiffs. Cun. Diet.
  • FLOTSAM, FLOTSAN
    A name for the goods which float upon the sea when cast overboard for the safety of the ship, or when a ship is sunk. Distinguished from "jetsam" and "ligan." Bract, lib. 2, c. 5; 5 Coke, 106; 1 Bl. Comm. 292.
  • FLOUD-MARKE
    In old English law. High-water mark; flood-mark. 1 And. 88,89.
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