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  • FURTHERANCE
    In criminal law, furthering, helping forward, promotion, or advancement of a criminal project or conspiracy. Powers v. Comm., 114 Ky. 237, 70 S. W. 652.
  • FURTIVE
    In old English law. Stealthily ; by stealth. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, s 3.
  • FURTUM
    Lat. Theft. The fraudulent appropriation to one's self of the property of another, with an Intention to commit theft without the consent of the owner. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 36; Bract fol. 150; 3 Inst 107. The thing which has been stolen. Bract, fol. 151. -Furtum conceptum. In Roman law. More...
  • FUSTIGATIO
    In old English law. A beating with sticks or clubs; one of the ancient kinds of punishment of malefactors. Bract fol. 104b, lib. 3, tr. 1, c. 6.
  • FUSTIS
    In old English law. A staff, used in making livery of seisin. Bract, fol. 40. A baton, club, or cudgel.
  • FUTURE DEBT
    In Scotch law. A debt which is created, but which will not become due till a future day. 1 Bell, Comm. 315.
  • FUTURE ESTATE
    See ESTATE.
  • FUTURES
    This term has grown out of those purely speculative transactions, in which there is a rominal contract of sale for future delivery, but where in fact none is ever intended or executed. The nominal seller does not have or expect to have the stock or merchandise he purports to sell, More...
  • FUTURI
    Lat. Those who are to be. Part of the commencement of old deeds. "Sciant prcesentes et futuri, quod ego talis, dedi et concessi" etc., (Let all men now living and to come know that I, A. B., have, etc.) Bract, fol. 345.
  • FUZ, OR FUST
    A Celtic word, meaning a wood or forest.
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