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  • FRACTION
    A breaking, or breaking up; a fragment or broken part; a portion of a thing, less than the whole. Jory v. Palace Dry Goods Co., 30 Or. 196, 46 Pac. 786. -Fraction of a day. A portion of a day. The dividing a day. Generally, the law does not allow More...
  • FRACTIONAL
    As applied to tracts of land, particularly townships, sections, quarter sections, and other divisions according to the government survey, and also mining claims, this term means that the exterior boundary lines are laid down to include the whole of such a division or such a claim, but that, the tract More...
  • FRACTITIUM
    Arable land. Mon. Angl.
  • FRACTURA NAVIUM
    Lat. The breaking or wreck of ships; the same as naufrogium, (q. v.)
  • FRAGMENTA
    Lat. Fragments. A name sometimes applied (especially in citations) to the Digest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, as being made up of numerous extracts or "fragments" from the writings of various jurists. Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 74.
  • FRAIS
    Fr. Expense; charges; costs. Frais d'un process, costs of a suit. -Frails de justice. In French and Canadian law. Costs Incurred incidentally to the action. -Frals jnsqn'a bord. Fr. In French commercial law. Expenses to the board; expenses incurred on a shipment of goods, in packing, cartage, commissions, etc., up More...
  • FRANC
    A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents.
  • FRANC ALEU
    In French feudal law. An allod; a free inheritance; or an estate held free of any services except such as were due to the sovereign.
  • FRANCHILANUS
    A freeman. Chart Hen. IV. A free tenant Spelman.
  • FRANCHISE
    A special privilege conferred by government upon an individual or corporation, and which does not belong to the citizens of the country generally, of common right It is essential to the character of a franchise that it should be a grant from the sovereign authority, and in this country no More...
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