Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

FATHER

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FARINAGIUM

public revenues, taxes, excise, etc., for a certain commission or percentage; as a fartr*- er of the revenues. FARO. An unlawful game of cards, ift which all the other players play against th» banker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Webster. FARRAGO LIBELLI. Lat. An ill-com posed book containing a collection of miscel laneous subjects not properly associated nor scientifically arranged. Wharton. FARRIER. One whose business is to> shoe horses for all such as apply to him. FARTHING. The fourth part of an En glish penny. FARTHING OF GOLD. An ancient English coin, containing in value the fourth, part of a noble. FARYNDON INN. The ancient ap pellation of Serjeants' Inn, Chancery lane. FAS. Lat. Right; justice; the divine FAST. In Georgia, a " fast" bill of excep tions is one which may be taken in injunc tion suits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up for review with great expedition. It must be certified within twenty days from the render ing of the decision. 66 Ga. 353. FAST-DAY. A day of fasting and itence, or of mortification by religious absti nence. See 1 Chit. Archb. Fr. (12th Ed.) l&K et seq. FAST ESTATE. Real property. A term sometimes used in wills. 6 Johns. 185; 9 N. Y. 502. FASTERMANS, or FASTING-MEN. Men in repute and substance; pledges, sure ties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon polity, were fast bound to answer for each other's peaceable behavior. Enc. Lond. FASTI. In Roman law. Lawful. fasti, lawful days; days on which justice could lawfully be administered by the pr»tor. See DIES FASTI. Fatetur facinus qul judicium fugit. 3 Inst. 14. He whofleesjudgment confesses* his guilt. FATHER. The male parent. He bj* whom a child is begotten. law. 3 Bl. Comm. 2; Calvin. FASIUS. A faggot of wood.

FARINAGITJM. A mill; a toll of meal or flour. Jacob; Spelman. FARLEU. Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot. It was often applied to the best chattel, as distinguished from hetiot, the best beast. Gowell. FARLINGABH. Whoremongers and adulterers. FARM. A certain amount of provision reserved as the rent of a messuage. Spel man. Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid in money, it was called "blanche flrme." Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 42. A term, a lease of lands; a leasehold in terest. 2 Bl. Comm. 17; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 801, note. The land itself, let to farm or rent. 2 Bl. Comm. 363. A portion of land used for agricultural purposes, either wholly or in part. 18 Pick. 553; 2 Bin. 238. The original meaning of the word was "rent," and by a natural transition it came to mean the land out of which the rent is sued. In old English law. A lease of other things than land, as of imposts. There were several of these, such as "the sugar farm," "the silk farm," and farms of wines and cur rants, called "petty farms." See 2 How. State Tr. 1197-1206. In American law. "Farm" denotes a tract of land devoted in part, at least, to cul tivation, for agricultural purposes, without reference to its extent, or to the tenure by which it is held. 2 Bin. 238. FARM LET. Operative words in a lease, which strictly mean to let upon pay ment of a certain rent in farm; i. e., in agri cultural produce. FARM OUT. To let for a term at a stated rental. Among the Romans the col lection of revenue was farmed out, and in England taxes and tolls sometimes are. FARMER. 1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or years, al though it be but of a small house and land, is called "farmer." This word implies no mystery, except it be that of husbandman. Cunningham; Cowell. 2. A husbandman or agriculturist; one who cultivates a farm, whether the land be his own or anothei 's. 3. One who assumes the collection of the

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