Legal Term Dictionary

Search our free database of thousands of legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms.This dictionary is from the early 20th century and is not to be construed as legal advice.

Search
  • FOUR
    Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned by tbe seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread for baking. Also the proprietary right to maintain such an oven.
  • FOUR CORNERS
    The face of a written instrument. That which is contained on the face of a deed (without any aid from the knowledge of the circumstances under which it is made) is said to be within its four corners, because every deed is still supposed to be written on one entire More...
  • FOUR SEAS
    The seas surrounding England. These were divided into the Western, including the Scotch and Irish; the North? ern, or North sea; the Eastern, being the German ocean; the Southern, being the British channel.
  • FOURCHER
    Fr. To fork. This was a method of delaying an action anciently resorted to by defendants when two of them were joined in the suit. Instead of appearing together, each would appear in turn and cast an essoin for the other, thus postponing the trial.
  • FOURIERISM
    A form of socialism. See 1 Mill, Pol. Ec. 260.
  • FOWLS OF WARREN
    Such fowls as are preserved under the game laws In warrens. According to Manwood, these are partridges and pheasants. According to Coke, they are partridges, rails, quails, woodcocks, pheasants, mallards, and herons. Co. Litt. 233.
  • FOX'S LIBEL ACT
    In English law. This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 60, which secured to juries, upon the trial of indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter- In issue, and no longer bound them to find a verdict More...
  • FOY
    L. Fr. Faith; allegiance; fidelity.
  • FR.
    A Latin abbreviation for "fragmentum," a fragment, used in citations to the Digest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, the several extracts from juristic writings of which it is composed being so called.
  • FRACTIO
    Lat. A breaking; division; fraction; a portion of a thing less than the whole.
Showing 6040 of 14636