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  • FLOWING LANDS
    This term has acquired a definite and specific meaning in law. It commonly imports raising and setting back water on another's land, by a dam placed across a stream or water-course which is the natural drain and outlet for surplus water on such land. Call v. Middlesex County Com'rs, 2 More...
  • FLUCTUS
    Flood; flood-tide. Bract, fol. 255.
  • FLUMEN
    In Roman law. A servitude which consists in the right to conduct the rain-water, collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house or ground of one's neighbor. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 817; Ersk. Inst 2, 9, 9. Also a river or stream. In old English More...
  • FLUMINAE VOLUCRES
    Wild fowl; water-fowl. 11 East, 571, note.
  • FLUVIUS
    Lat. A river; a public river; flood ; flood-tide.
  • FLUXUS
    In old English law. Flow. Per fluwum et refiuxum maris, by the flow and reflow of the sea. Dal. pi. 10.
  • FLY FOR IT
    On a criminal trial in former times, it was usual after a verdict of not guilty to Inquire also, "Did he fly for it?" This practice was abolished by the 7 A 8 Geo. IV., c. 28, | 5. Wharton.
  • FLYING SWITCH
    In railroading, a flying switch is made by uncoupling the cars from the engine while in motion, and throwing the cars onto the side track, by turning the switch, after the engine has passed it upon the main track. Greenleaf v. Illinois Cent. R Co., 29 Iowa, 39, 4 Am. More...
  • FLYMA
    In old English law. A runaway; fugitive; one escaped from Justice, or who has no "hlaford"
  • FLYMAN-FRYMTH
    In old English law. Tbe offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown.
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