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  • FOSSELLUM
    A small ditch. CowelL
  • FOSTERING
    An ancient custom in Ireland, in which persons put away their children to fosterers. Fostering was held to be a stronger alliance than bipod, and the foster children participated in the fortunes of their foster fathers. Mozley A Whitley.
  • FOSTERLAND
    Land given, assigned, or allotted to the finding of food or victuals for any person or persons; as in monasteries for the monks, etc. Cowell; Blount.
  • FOSTERLEAN
    The remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also the jointure of a wife. Jacob.
  • FOUJDAR
    In Hindu law. Under the Mogul government a magistrate of the police over a large district, who took cognizance of all criminal matters within his jurisdiction, and sometimes was employed as receiver general of the revenues. Wharton. -Fouidnrry oourt. In Hindu law. A tribunal for administering criminal law.
  • FOUNDATION
    The founding or building of a college or hospital. The incorporation or endowment of a college or hospital is the foundation; and he who endows it with land or other property is the founder. Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 667, 4 LL Ed. 629; Seagrave's Appeal, 125 Pa. 362, More...
  • FOUNDED
    Based upon; arising from, growing out of, or resting upon; as in the expressions "founded in fraud," "founded on a consideration," "founded on contract," and the like See In re Grant Shoe Co., 130 Fed. 881, 66 C. C. A. 78 ; State v. Morgan, 40 Conn. 46; Palmer v. More...
  • FOUNDER
    The person who endows an eleemosynary corporation or institution, or supplies the funds for its establishment. See FOUNDATION.
  • FOUNDEROSA
    Founderous; out of repair, as a road. Cro. Car. 366.
  • FOUNDLING
    A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or guardian, its relatives being unknown. It has a settlement in the district where found. -Foundling hospitals. Charitable institutions which exist in most countries for taking care *f infants forsaken by their parents, such being generally the offspring of More...
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