日期：2008-03-13 FOREIGN JUDGMENT , evidence, remedies. A judgment rendered in a foreign state. 2. In Louisiana it has been decided that a judgment rendered by a Spanish tribunal, under the former governmeut of the country, is not a foreign judgment. 4 M. R. 301 Id.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FOREIGN . That which belongs to another country; that which is strange. 1 Peters, R. 343. 2. Every nation is foreign to all the rest, and the several states of the American Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their municipal laws. 2 Was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FORCE AND ARMS . The same as vi et armis. (q. v.) FORCED HEIRS . In Louisiana they are those persons whom the testator or donor cannot deprive of the porttion of his estate reserved for them by law, except in cases where he has a just cause to disin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FOLCMOTE . The name of a court among the Saxons. It was literally an assembly of the people or inhabitants of the tithing or town, its jurisdiction extended over disputes between neighbors, as to matters of trespass in meadows, corn, and the like. F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FLORIN . The name of a foreign coin. In all computations of customs, the florin of the southern states of Germany, shall be estimated at forty cents; the florin of the Austrian empire, and of the city of Augshurg, at forty-eight and one-half cents.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FLORIDA . The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. It was admitted into the Union by virtue of the act of congress, entitled An Act for the admission of the states of Iowa and Florida into the Union, approved March 3, 1845.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES . By the act entitled, An act to establish the flag of the United States, passed April 4, 1818, 3 Story's L. U. S., 1667, it is enacted- 2. - 1. That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 TO FIX . To render liable. 2. This term is applied to the condition of special bail; when the plaintiff has issued a ca. sa. which has been returned by the sheriff, non est, the bail are said to be fixed, unless the defendant be surrendered within t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FIRMAN . A passport g ranted by the Great Mogul, to captains of foreign vessels, to trade within the territories over which he has jurisdiction; a permit. FIRST PURCHASER . In the English law of descent, the first purchaser was he who first acquired... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FINE FOR ALIENATION . During the vigor of the feudal law, a fine for alienation was a sum of money which a tenant by knight's service paid to his lord for permission to alienate his right in the estate he held, to another, and by that means to subst... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FINDING , practice. That which has been ascertained; as, the ruding of the jury is conclusive as to matters of fact when confirmed: by a judgment of the court. 1 Day, 238; 2 Day, 12. FINDING A VERDICT . The act of the jury in agreement upon a verdic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FILUM VIAE . The thread or middle of the road. 2. Where a law requires travellers meeting each other on, a road to drive their carriages to the right of the middle of the road, the parties are bound to keep ou their side of the worked part of the ro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FILIATION , civil law. The descent of son or daughter, with regard to his or her father, mother, and their ancestors. 2. Nature always points out the mother by evident signs, and whether married or not, she is always certain: mater semper certa est,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FIERI FECI , practice. The return which the sheriff, or other proper officer, makes to certain writs, signifying, I have caused to be made. 2. When the officer has made this return, a rule may be obtained upon him, after the return day, to pay the m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FIDUCIARY . This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament. Merl. Repert. h. t. But Pothier,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FICTITIOUS PAYEE , contract. A supposed person; a payee, who has no existence. 2. When the name of a fictitious payee has been used, in making a bill of exchange, and it has been endorsed in such name, it is considered as having the effect of a bill... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FIAR , Scotch law. He whose property is burdened with a life rent. Ersk. Pr. of L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 23. FIAT , practice. An order of a judge, or of an officer, whose authority, to be signified by his signature, is necessary to authenticate the p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FERM or FEARM . By this ancient word is meant land, fundus; (q. v.) and, it is said, houses and tenements may pass by it. Co. Litt. 5 a. FERRY . A place where persons and things are taken across a river or other stream in boats or other vessels, for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FEMININE . What belongs to the female sex. 2. When the feminine is used, it is generally confined to females; as, if a man bequeathed all his mares to his son, his horses would not pass. Vide: 3 Brev. R. 9 Gender; Man; Masculine. FENCE . A building... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FELONY , crimes. An offence which occasions a total forfeiture of. either lands or goods, or both, at common law, to which capital or other punishment may be super-added, according to the degree of guilt. 4 Bl. Com, 94, 5; 1 Russ. Cr. *42; 1 Chit. P... 阅读全文>>