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  • FOCAGE
    House-bote; flre-bote. Cowell.
  • FOCALE
    In old English law. Firewood. The right of taking wood for the fire. Flre-bote. Cunningham.
  • FODDER
    Food for horses or cattle. In feudal law, the term also denoted a prerogative of the prince to be provided with corn, etc., for his horses by his subjects in his wars.
  • FODERTORIUM
    Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell.
  • FODERUM
    See FODDER.
  • FODINA
    A mine. Co. Litt 6a.
  • FOEDUS
    In international law. A treaty; a league; a compact.
  • FOEMINA VIRO CO-OPERTA
    A married woman; a feme covert. Foam in as ab omnibns officii* eMlibms ?el pnbliets remotes snnt. Women are excluded from all civil and public charges or offices. Dig. 50,17, 2; 1 Exch. 645 ; 6 Mees. & W. 216. . FoMninse non sunt oapaoes de pnbllcl* officii*. Jenk. Cent. More...
  • FOENERATION
    Lending money at interest; the act of putting out money to usury.
  • FOENUS
    Lat. In the civil law. Interest on money; the lending of money on interest -Founts nantienm. Nautical or maritime interest An extraordinary rate of interest agreed to be paid for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage: sometimes called "usuro maritime." Die. 22, 2; Code, 4, 33; More...
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