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  • FRENDWITE
    In old English law. A mulct or fine exacted from him who harbored an outlawed friend. Cowell; Tomlins,
  • FRENETICUS
    In old English law. A madman, or person in a frenzy. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 36.
  • FREOBORGH
    A free-surety, or free-pledge. Spelman. See FRANK-PLEOGK.
  • FREQUENT
    v. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. Green v. State, 109 Ind. 175, 9 N. E. 781; State v. Ah Sam, 14 Or. 347, 13 Pac. 303. Freqnentia actus mnltnm operatur. The frequency of an act effects much. 4 Coke, 78; Wing. Max. p. 719, max. 192. More...
  • FRERE
    Fr. A brother. Frcre eyne, elder brother. Frere puisne, younger brother. Britt c. 75.
  • FRESCA
    In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood.
  • FRESH
    Immediate; recent; following without any material Interval. -Fresh disseisin. By the ancient common law, where a man had been disseised, he was allowed to right himself by force, by ejecting the disseisor from the premises, without resort to law, provided this was done forthwith, while the disseisin was fresh, (flagrante More...
  • FRESHET
    A flood, or overflowing of a river, by means of rains or melted snow; an inundation. Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 rhila. (Pa.) 42; Harris v. Social Mfg. Co., 9 R. I. 99. 11 Am. Rep. 224.
  • FRET
    Fr. In French marine law. Freight Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 3.
  • FRETER
    Fr. In French marine law. To freight a ship; to let it. femerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, | 3.
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