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  • FRIENDLY SUIT
    A suit brought by a creditor in chancery against an executor or administrator, being really a suit by the executor or administrator, in the name of a creditor, against himself, in order to compel the creditors to take an equal distribution of the assets. 2 William, Ex'rs, 1915. Also any More...
  • FRIGIDITY
    Impotence. Johnson.
  • FRILINGI
    Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman.
  • FRISCUS
    Fresh uncultivated ground. Mon. Angl. t. 2, p. 56. Fresh; not salt. Reg. Orig. 97. Recent or new. See FRESH, and sub-titles thereunder.
  • FRITH
    Sax. Peace, security, or protection. This word occurs in many compound terms used in Anglo-Saxon law. -Frithborg. Frank-pledge. Cowell.-Frithbote. A satisfaction or fine for a breach of the peace.-Frithbreuch. The breaking of the peace.-Frithgar. The year of jubilee, or of meeting for peace and friendship.-Frithgilda. Guildhall; a company or fraternity More...
  • FRIVOLOUS
    An answer or plea is called "frivolous" when it is clearly insufficient on its face, and does not controvert the material points of the opposite pleading, and is presumably interposed for mere purposes of delay or to embarrass the plaintiff. Erwln v. Lowery, 64 N. C. 321; Strong v. Sproul, More...
  • FRODMORTEL , OR FREOMORTEL
    An immunity for committing manslaughter. Mon. Angk t. 1, p. 173.
  • FRONTAGE-FRONTAGER
    In English law a frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to the liability of frontagers on streets to contribute towards the expense of paving, draining, or other works on the highway More...
  • FRONTIER
    In international law. That portion of the territory of any country which lies close along "the border line of another country, and so "fronts" or faces it The term means something more than the boundary line itself, and includes a tract or strip of country, of indefinite extent, contiguous to More...
  • FRUCTUARIUS
    Lat. In the civil law. One who had the usufruct of a thing; i. e, the use of the fruits, profits, or increase, as of land or animals. Inst 2, 1, 36, 38. Bracton applies it to a lessee, fermor, or farmer of land, or one who held lands ad More...
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