Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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slight fault is that want of care which a pru dent man usually takes of his business. The very slight fault is that which is excusable, and for which no responsibility is incurred. Civil Code La. art. 3556, par. 13. FAUTOR. In old English law. A favorer or supporter of others; an abettor. Cowell; Jacob. A partisan. One who en couraged resistance to the execution of pro cess. In Spanish law. Accomplice; the per son who aids or assists another in the com mission of a crime. FAUX. In old English law. False; counterfeit. Faux action, a false action. Litt. § 688. Faux money, counterfeit mon ey. St. Westm. 1, c. 15. Faux peys, false weights. Britt. c. 20. Faux serement, a false oath. St. Westm. 1, c. 38. In French law. A falsification or fraud ulent alteration or suppression of a thing by words, by writings, or by acts without e\tket» Biret. u Faux may be understood in three ways. In its most extended sense it is the alteration of truth, with or without intention; it is nearly synony mous with 'lying.' In a less extended sense, it is the alteration of truth, accompanied with fraud, mutatio veritatis cum dolofacta. And lastly, in a narrow, or rather the legal, sense of the word, when it is a question to know if the faux he a crime, it is the fraudulent alteration of the truth in those cases ascertained and punished by the law." Tou illier, t. 9, n. 188. In the civil law. The fraudulent alter ation of the truth. The same with the Latin falsum or crimen falsi. FAVOR. Bias; partiality; lenity; prej udice. See CHALLENGE. Favorabilia in lego sunt flscus, dos, vita, libertas. Jenk. Cent. 94. Things favorably considered in law are the treasury, dower, life, liberty. Favorabiliores rei, potius quam ao tores, habentur. The condition of the de fendant must be favored, rather than that of the plaintiff. In other words, melior est conditio defendent4s. Dig. 50, 17, 125; Broom, Max. 715. Favorabiliores sunt executiones aliis processibus quibuscunque. Co. Litt. 289. Executions are preferred to all other pro cesses whatever. Favores ampliandi sunt; odia re stringenda. Jenk. Cent. 186. Favors are to be enlarged; things hateful restrained.

F A T H E R-IN-LAW. The father of one's wife or husband. FATHOM. A nautical measure of six feet In length. FATUA MULIEE. A whore. Do Fresno. FATUITAS. In old English law. Fa tuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 266. FATUITY. Mental weakness; foolish ness; imbecility; idiocy. F A T U M . Lat. Fate; a superhuman power; an event or cause of loss, beyond hu man foresight or means of prevention. FATUOUS PERSON. One entirely destitute of reason; is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48. FATUUS. An idiot or fool. Bract, fol. 4205. Foolish; absurd; indiscreet; or ill consid ered. Fatuumjtidicium, a foolish judgment or verdict. Applied to the verdict of a jury which, though false, was not criminally so, or did not amount to perjury. Bract, fol. 289. Fatuus, apud jurisconsultos nostros, accipitur pro uon compos mentis; et fatuus dicitur, qui omnino desipit. 4 Coke, 128. Fatuous, among our juriscon sults, is understood for a man not of right mind; and he is called "fatuus" who is al together foolish. Fatuus prsesumitur qui in proprio nomine errat. A man is presumed to be simple who makes a mistake in his own name. Code, 6, 24, 14; 5 Johns. Gh. 148, 161. FAUBOURG. In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town ad joining the principal city; a suburb. See 18 La. 286. FAUCES TERRiE. (Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclos ing a portion or arm of the sea within them. 1 Kent, Com no. 367, and note; Hale, De Jure Mar. 10; 1 Story, 251, 259. FAULT. In the civil law. Negligence; want of care. An improper act or omission, injurious to another, and transpiring through negligence, rashness, or ignorance. There are in law three degrees of faults,— the gross, the slight, and the very slight fault. The gross fault is that which proceeds from inexcusable negligence or ignorance; it is considered as nearly equal to fraud. The

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