日期：2008-03-13 TO GARNSIH . To warn; to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete. GARNISHEE , practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and he has had no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 GAMING HOUSES , crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of pemitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 GABEL . A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. Cunn. Dict. h. t. But this seems to be an error for gabelle signified in that country, previously to its revolution, a duty upo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FURLINGUS . A furlong, or a furrow oneeighth part of a mile long. Co. Litt. 5. b. FURLONG . A measure of length, being forty poles, or one-eighth of a mile. Vide Measures. FURLOUGH . A permission given in the army and-navy to an officer or private t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FUNERAL EXPENSES . Money expended in procuring the interment of a corpse. 2. The person who orders the funeral is responsible personally for the expenses, and if the estate of the deceased should be insolvent, he must lose the amount. But if there a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FULL AGE . A. person is said to have full age at twenty-one years, whether the person be a man or woman. See Age. FULL COURT . When all the judges are present and properly organized, it -is said there is a full court; a court in banc. FULL DEFENCE ,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FRUIT , property. The produce of tree or plant containing the seed or used for food. Fruit is considered real estate, before it is separated from the plant or tree on which it grows; after its separation it acquires the character of personally, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FREIGHTER , contracts. He to whom a ship or vessel has been hired. 3 Kent, Com. 173; 3 Pardess. n. 704. 2. The freighter is entitled to the enjoyment of the vessel according to contract, and the vessel hired is the only one that he is bound to take... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FREIGHT , mar. law, contracts. The sum agreed on for the hire of a ship, entirely or in part, for the carriage of goods from one port to another; l3 East, 300, note; but in, its more extensive sense it is applied to all rewards or compensation paid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FREE WARREN , Eng. law. A franchise erected for the preservation and custody of beasts and fowls of warren. 2 Bl. Com. 39; Co. Litt. 233. FREEDMEN . The name formerly given by the Romans to those persons who had been released from a State of servitu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FRAUDS, STATUTE OF . The name commonly given to the statate 29 Car. II., c. 3, entitled An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries. This statute has been re-enacted in most. of the states of the Union, generally with omissions, amendments, or alt... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FRAUD , contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an agreement contrary to his interest. The fraud may consist either, first, in the misreprese... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FRANK, FREE . This word is used in composition, as frank-almoign, frank-marriage, frank-tenement, c. FRANK-ALMOIGN , old English law. This is a French law word, signifying free-alms. 2. Formerly religious corporations, aggregate or sole, held lands... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FRANC , com. law. The name of a French coin. Five franc pieces, when not of less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than three hundred and eighty-four grains each,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FORUM . This term signifies jurisdiction, a court of justice, a tribunal. 2. The French divide it into for exterieur, which is the authority which human justice exercises on persons and property, to a greater or lesser extent, according to the quali... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FORMER RECOVERY . A recovery in a former action. 2. It is a general rule, that in a real or personal action, a judgment unreversed, whether it be by confession, verdict or demurrer, is a perpetual bar, and may be pleaded to any new action of the sam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FORISFAMILIATION , law of Scotl. By this is understood the act by which a father gives to a child his share of his legitime, and the latter renounces all further claim. From this time, the child who has so received his share, is no longer accounted... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FORFEITURE OF MARRIAGE , Old law. The name of a penalty formerly incurred by a ward in chivalry, when he or she married contrary to the wishes of his or her guardian in chivalry. The latter, who was the ward's lord, had an interest in controlling th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FORFEITURE , punishment, torts. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they become vested in the party injured,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FOREIGN NATION or STATE . A nation totally independent of the United States of America 2. The constitution authorizes congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations. This phrase does not include an Indian tribe, situated within the boundaries of... 阅读全文>>