Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FAMILIiE ERUSCUND^

FARE

FAMILY BIBLE. A Bible containing a record of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family. FAMILY MEETING. An institution of the laws of Louisiana, being a council of the relatives (or, if there are no relatives, of the friends) of a minor, for the purpose of advising as to his affairs and the administra tion of his property. The family meeting is called by order of a judge, and presided over by a justice or notary, and must consist of at • least five persons, who are put under oath. FAMOSUS. In the civil and old English law. delating to or affecting character or reputation; defamatory; slanderous. FAMOSUS LIBELLUS. A libelous writing. A term of the civil law denoting that species of injuria which corresponds nearly to libel or slander. FANAL. Fr. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel's stern. FANATICS. Persons pretending to be inspired, and being a general name for Qua kers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the Church of England. (St. 13 Car. II. c. 6.) Jacob. FANEGA. In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but in the Spanish settlements in America con sisting of 6,400 square varas or yards. FAQUEER, or FAKIR. A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar. FARANDMAN. In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene. FARDEL OF LAND. In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. !Noy says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton. FARDELLA. In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, § 10. FARDING-DEAL. The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman. FARE. A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Cowell. The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for carrying a passenger. 26 K. Y. 526.

librarr* t in the process of making a will under the Twelve Tables. This purchaser was merely a man of straw, transmitting the inheritance to the hares proper. Brown. FAMILLffi! ERCISCUND.S3. In Ro man law. An action for the partition of the aggregate succession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hceredes. It was also applicable to enforce a contribution towards the necessary expenses incurred on the famil ia. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 499. FAMILIARES REGIS. Persons of the king's household. The ancient title of the "six clerks" of chancery in England. Crabb, Com. Law, 184; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 249, 251. FAMILY. A family comprises a father, mother, and children. In a wider sense, it may include domestic servants; all who live in one house under one head. In a still broader sense, a group of blood-relatives; all the relations who descend rrom a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root. See Civil Code La. art. 3522, no. 16; 9 Ves. 823. A husband and wife living together may constitute a "family," within the meaning of that word as used in a homestead law.

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