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  • FASIUS
    In old English law. A faggot Of wood.
  • FAST
    In Georgia, a "fast" bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunction suits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner, as to bring the case up for review with great expedition. It must be certified within twenty days from the rendering of the decision. More...
  • FAST-DAY
    A day of fasting and penitence, or of mortification by religious abstinence. See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 100, et seq.
  • FAST ESTATE
    See ESTATE.
  • FASTERMANS, OR FASTING-MEN
    Men in repute and substance; pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon polity, were fast bound to answer for each others peaceable behavior. Enc. Lond.
  • FASTI
    In Roman law. Lawful. Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice could lawfully be administered by the praetor. See DIES FASTI. Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit. 8 Inst. 14. He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
  • FATHER
    The male parent. He by whom a child is begotten. As used in law, this term may (according to the context and the nature of the instrument) include a putative as well as a legal father, also a stepfather, an adoptive father, or a grandfather, but is not as wide More...
  • FATHOM
    A nautical measure of six feet in length. Occasionally used as a superficial measure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-six square feet. Nahaolelua v. Kaaahu, 9 Hawaii, 60L
  • FATUA MULIER
    A whore. Du Fresne.
  • FATUITAS
    In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 266.
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