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  • FOLK-LAND; FOLK-MOTE
    See FOCO-LAND ; FOLC-GEMOTE
  • FOLLOW
    To conform to, comply with, or be fixed or determined by; as in the expressions "costs follow the event of the suit'9 "the situs of personal property follows that of the owner," "the offspring follows the mother," {partus sequitur ventrem).
  • FONDS ET BIENS
    Fr. In French law. Goods and effects. Adams v. Akerlund, 168 HI. 632, 48 N. E. 454.
  • FONDS PERDUS
    In French law. A capital is said to be invested a fonds perdus when it is stipulated that in consideration of the payment of an amount as interest, higher than the normal rate, the lender shall be repaid his capital in this manner. The borrower, after having paid the interest More...
  • FONSADERA
    In Spanish law. Any tribute or loan granted to the king for the purpose of enabling him to defray the expenses of a war.
  • FONTANA
    A fountain or spring. Bract, fol. 233.
  • FOOT
    1. A measure of length containing twelve inches or one-third of a yard. 2. The base, bottom, or foundation of anything; and, toy metonomy, the end or termination; as the foot of a fine,
  • FOOT OF THE FINE
    The fifth part of the conclusion of a fine. It includes the whole matter, reciting the names of the parties, day, year, and place, and before whom it was acknowledged or levied. 2 Bl. Comm. 35L
  • FOOTGELD
    In the forest law. An o amercement for not cutting out the ball or cutting off the claws of a dog's-feet, (exped-itating him.) To be quit of footgeld is to have the privilege of keeping dogs in the forest unlaAced without punishment or control. Manwood.
  • FOOT-PRINTS
    In the law of evidence. Impressions made upon earth, snow, or other surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of the feet Burrill, Circ. Ev. 264.
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