Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FALCIDIAN LAW. In Romanlaw. A law on the subject of testamentary disposi tion, enacted by the people in the y«ar of Rome 714, on the proposition of the tribune Falcidius. By this law, the testator's right to burden his estate with legacies was sub jected to an important restriction. It pre set ibed that no one could bequeath more than three-fourths of his property in legacies, and that the heir should have at least one-fourth of the estate, and that, should the testator violate this prescript, the heir may have the right to make a proportional deduction from each legatee, so far as necessary. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 771; Inst. 2, 22. FALCIDIAN PORTION. That por tion of a testator's estate which, by the Fal cidian law, was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-icurth. FALD, or FALDA. A sheep-fold. Cow ell. FALDA. Span. In Spanish law. The slope or skirt of a hill. 2 Wall. 673. FALD.E CURSUS. In old English law. A fold-course; the course (going or taking about) of a fold. Spelman. A sheep walk, or feed for sheep. 2 Vent. 139. FALDAGE. The privilege which ancient ly several lords reserved to themselves of set ting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only with their own but their ten ants' sheep. Called, variously, "secta fal dare," "fold-course," "free-fold," "falda gii." Cowell; Spelman. FALDATA. In old English law. A flock or fold of sheep. Cowell. FALDFEY. Sax. A fee or rent paid by a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheep on his own ground. Jilount. FALDISDORY. In ecclesiastical law. The bishop's seat or thione within the chan cel. FALDSOCA. Sax. The liberty or priv ilege of foldage. FALDSTOOL. A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels at his coronation. Wharton. FALDWORTH. InSaxon law. A per son of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresne.

FAIBLT. Justly; rightly; equitably. With substantial correctness. "Fairly" is not synonymous with "truly,"and "truly" should not be substituted for itinacom missioner'b oath to take testimony fairly. Lan guage may be truly, yet unfairly, reported; that is, an answer may be truly written down, yet in a manner conveying a different meaning from that intended and conveyed. And language may be fairly reported, yet not in accordance with strict truth. 17 N. J. Ed. 234. "FAIT. L.Fr. Anything done. A deed; act; fact. A deed lawfully executed. Com. Dig. Feme defait. A wife de facto. FAIT ENROLLE. A deed enrolled, as • bargain and sale of freeholds. 1 Keb. 568. FAIT JURIDIQUE. In French law. A juridical fact. One of the factors or ele ments constitutive of an obligation. FAITH. 1. Confidence; credit; reliance. Thus, an act may be said to be done "on the faith" of certain representations. 2. Belief; credence; trust. Thus, the con stitution provides that "full faith and credit" shall be given to the judgments of each state in the courts of the others. 3. Purpose; intent; sincerity; state of knowledge or design. This is the meaning of the word in the phrases "good faith" and "bad 1 faith." In Scotch law. A solemn pledge* an oath. "To make faith" is to swear, with the right hand uplifted, that one will declare the truth. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, p. 235. FAITOURS. Idle persons; idle livers; vagabonds. Cowell; Blount. FALANG. In old English law. A jack et or close coat. Blount. FALCARE. In old English law. To mow. Falcare prata, to mow or cut grass in meaduws laid in for hay. A customary service to the lord by his inferior tenants. Jus falcandi, the right of cutting wood. Bract, fol. 231. Falcata, grass fresh mown, and laid in iwaths. Falcatio, a mowing. Bract, fols. 356,230. Falcator, a mower; a servile tenant who performed the labor of mowing. Falcatura, a day's mowing. FALCIDIA. In Spanish law. The Fal cidian portion; the poition of an inheritance which could not be legally bequeathed away from the heir, viz., one-fourth.

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