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  • IN FACIE CURIAE
    In the face of the court Dyer, 28.
  • IN FACIE ECCLESIAE
    In the face of the church. A term applied in the law of England to marriages, which are required to be solemnized in a parish church or public chapel, unless by dispensation or license. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Steph. Comm. 288, 289. Applied in Bracton to the old mode More...
  • IN FACIENDO
    In doing; in feasance; in the performance of an act 2 Story, Eq. Jur. | 1308.
  • IN FACT
    Actual, real; as distinguished from implied or inferred. Resulting from the acts of parties, instead of from the act or intendment of law.
  • IN FACTO
    In fact; in deed. In facta dicit, in fact says. 1 Salk. 22, pi. L In facto qnod se habet ad bonum et malum, magis de bono qnam de malo lex intendit. In an act or deed which admits of being considered as both good and bad, the law intends More...
  • IN FAVOREM LIBERTATIS
    In favor of liberty.
  • IN FAVOREM VITAE
    In favor of life. In f avorem vita, libertatis, et innocen-tisB, omnia prsesumuntur. In favor of life, liberty, and innocence, every presumption is made. Lofft 125.
  • IN FEODO
    In fee. Bract fol. 207; Fleta, lib. 2, c 64, ? 15. Seisitus in feodo, seised in fee. Fleta, lib. 3, c 7, 11. In fictione juris semper mquitae axis* tit. In the fiction of law there is always equity; a legal fiction Is always consistent with equity. 11 Coke, More...
  • IN FIERI
    In being made; in process of formation or development; hence, incomplete or inchoate. Legal proceedings are described as in fieri until judgment is entered.
  • IN FINE
    Lat At the end. Used, in references, to indicate that the passage cited is at the end of a book, chapter, section, etc
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