日期：2008-03-13 FEES , compensation. Certain perquisites allowed by law to officers concerned in the administration of justice, or in the performance of duties required by law, as a recompense for their labor and trouble. Bac. Ab. h. t.; Latch, 18. 2. The term fees... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FEE, FEODUM or FEUDUM , estates. From the French, fief. A fee is an estate which may continue forever. The word fee is explained to signify that the land, or other subject of property, belongs to its owner, and is transmissible, in the case of an in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FAUX , French law. A falsification or fraudulent alteration or suppression of a thing by words, by writings, or by acts without either. Biret, Vocabulaire des Six Codes. 2. The crimen falsi of the civil law. Toullier says, Le faux s'entend de trois... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FATHER-IN-LAW . In latin, socer, is the father of one's wife, or of one's hushand. FATHER. PUTATIVE . A reputed father. Vide Putative father. FATHOM . A measure of length, equal to six feet. The word is probably derived from the Teutonic word fad, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 To FARM LET . These words in a lease have the effect of creating a lease for years. Co. Litt. 45 b; 2 Mod. 250. FARMER . One who is lessee of a farm. it is said that every lessee for life or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FAMILY MEETINGS . Family councils, or family meetings in Louisiana, are meetings of at least five relations, or in default of relations of minors or other persons on whose interest they are called upon to deliberate, then of the friends of such mino... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 TO FALSIFY , chancery practice. When a bill to open an account has been filed, the plaintiff is sometimes allowed to surcharge and falsify such account; and if any thing has been inserted that is a wrong charge, he is at liberty to show it, and that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FALSE RETURN . A return made by the sheriff, or other ministerial officer, to a writ in which is stated a fact contrary to the truth, and injurious to one of the parties or some one having an interest in it. 2. In this case the officer is liable for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FALSE Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition. FALSE IMPRISONMENT . torts. Any intentional detention of the person of another not authorized by law, is false imprisonm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FAINT PLEADER . A false, fraudulent, or collusory manner of pleading, to the deception of a third person. 3 E. I., c. 19. FAIR . A privileged market. 2. In England, fairs are granted by the king's patent. 3. In the United States, fairs are almost un... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FACTORAGE . The wages or allowances paid to a factor for his services; it is more usual to call this commissions. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1013; 2 Id. n. 1288. FACTORY , Scotch law. A contract which partakes of a mandate and locatio ad operandum, and which... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 FACTOR , contracts. An agent employed to sell goods or merchandise consigned or delivered to him by, or for his principal, for a compensation commonly called factorage or commission. Paley on Ag. 13; 1 Liverin. on Ag. 68; Story on Ag. 33; Com. Dig.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 F , punishment, English law. Formerly felons were branded and marked with a hot iron, with this letter, on being admitted to the benefit of clergy. FACIO UT DES . A species of contract in the civil law, which occurs when a man agrees to perform anyt... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXTREMIS . When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremism. 2. A will made in this condition, if made without undue influence, by a person of sound mind, is valid. 3. The declarations of persons in ex... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXTRADITION , civil law. The act of sending, by authority of law, a person accused of a crime to a foreign jurisdiction where it was committed, in' order that he may be tried there. Merl. Rep. h. t. 2. By the constitution and laws of the United Stat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXTINGUISHMENT , contracts. The destruction of a right or contract - the act by which a contract is made void. 2. Art extinguishment may be by matter of fact and by matter of law. 1. It is by matter of fact either express, as when one receives satis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXTENSION , comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXPRESS . That which is made known, and not left to implication. The opposite of implied. It is a rule, that when a matter or thing is expressed, it ceases to be implied by law: expressum facit cessare tacitum. Co. Litt. 183; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 97. EX... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXPENSAE LITIS . Expenses of the suit; the costs which are generally allowed to the successful party. EXPERTS . From the Latin experti,which signifies, instructed by experience. Persons who are selected by the courts or the parties in a cause on acc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 EXONERATUR , practice. A short note entered on a bail piece, that the bail is exonerated or discharged in consequence of having fulfilled the condition of his obligation, made by order of the court or of a judge upon a proper cause being shown. 2. A... 阅读全文>>