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  • FALDAE CURSUS
    In old English law. A fold-course; the course (going or taking about) of a fold. Spelman. A sheep walk, or feed for sheep. 2 Vent. 139.
  • FALDAGE
    The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only with their own but their tenants' sheep. Called, variously, "secta faldare"; "fold-course," "free-fold," "faldagii." Cowell; Spelman.
  • FALDATA
    In old English law. A flock or fold of sheep. Cowell.
  • FALDFEY
    Sax. A fee or rent paid by a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheep on his own ground. Blount
  • FALDISDORY
    In ecclesiastical law. The bishop's seat or throne within the chancel.
  • FALDSOCA
    Sax. The liberty or privilege of foldage.
  • FALDSTOOL
    A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels at his coronation. Wharton.
  • FALDWORTH
    In Saxon law. A person of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresne.
  • FALERAE
    In old English law. The tackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount.
  • FALESIA
    In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt 5b; Domesday.
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