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  • FUNDITORES
    Pioneers. Jacob.
  • FUNDUS
    In the civil and old English law. Land; land or ground generally; land, without considering its specific use; land, including buildings generally; a farm.
  • FUNERAL EXPENSES
    Money expended in procuring the interment of a corpse.
  • FUNGIBLE THINGS
    Movable goods which may be estimated and replaced according to weight, measure, and number. Things belonging to a class, which do not have to be dealt with in specie. Those things one specimen of which is as good as another, as is the case with half-crowns, or pounds of rice More...
  • FUNGIBILES RES
    Lat. In the civil law. Fungible things. See that title.
  • FUR
    Lat. A thief. One who stole se cretly or without force or weapons, as opposed to robber. -Fur manif estus. In the civil law. A manifest thief. A thief who is taken in the very act of stealing.
  • FURANDI ANIMUS
    Lat. An intention of stealing.
  • FURCA
    In old English law. A fork. A gallows or gibbet. Bract, fol. 56. -Furca et flagellum. Gallows and whin. Tenure ad furcam et flagcllum. tenure by gallows and whip. The meanest or servile tenures, where the bondman was at the disposal of hie lord for life and limb. Cowell-Furca et More...
  • FURIGELDUM
    A fine or mulct paid for theft Furiosi nulla voluntas est. A madman has no will. Dig. 50, 17, 40; Broom, Max. 314.
  • FURIOSITY
    In Scotch law. Madness, as distinguished from fatuity or idiocy.
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