Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

FESTING-MAN

FERDELLA TERRiE

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FERDELLA TERRiE. A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell. FERDFARE. Sax. A summons to serve In the.array. An acquittance from going into the army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 23. FERDINGXJS. A term denoting, appar ently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotseti. FERDWITE. In Saxon law. An ac quittance of manslaughter committed in the army; also afineimposed on persons for not going forth on a military expedition. Cow ell. FERIA. In old English law. A week day; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell; Du Cange; Spelman. FERItt. In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during which free-born Romans suspended their po litical transactions and their lawsuits, and during which slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor. All ferice were thus dies nefasti. All ferioe were divided into two classes,— "ferice publiece" and "ferics private." The latter were only observed by single families or in dividuals, in commemoration of some partic ular event which had been of importance to them or their ancestors. Smith, Diet. Antiq. FERIAL DAYS. Holidays; also week days, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell. FERITA. In old European law. A wound; a stroke. Spelman. FERLING. In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borough. FERLIN GATA. A fourth part of a yard land. FERLINGUS. A furlong. Co. Litt. 56. FERM, or FEARM. A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell. FERME. A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture or lease. Flowd. 195; Yicat. See FARM. FERMER, FERMOR. A lessee; a farmer. One who holds a term, whether of lands or an incorporeal right, such as cus toms or revenue. FERMIER. In French law. One who farms any public revenue. FERMISONA. In old English law. The winter season for killing deer.

FERMORY. In old records. A place in monasteries, where they received the poor, {hospicio eaxipiebant,) and gave them pro visions, (ferm,flrma.) Spelman. Hence the modern infirmary, used in the sense of a hos pital. FERN I GO. In old English law. A waste ground, or place where fern grows. Cowell. FERRATOR. A farrier, (q. ©.) FERRI. In the civil law. To be borne; that is on or about the person. This was dis tinguished from portari, (to be carried,) which signified to be carried on an animal. Dig. 50, 16, 235. FERRIAGE. The toll or fare paid for the transportation of persons and property across a ferry. Literally speaking, it is the price or fare fixed by law for the transportation of the traveling public, with such goods and chattels as they may hare with them, across a river, bay, or lake. 86 CaL 606. FERRIFODINA. In old pleading. An iron mine. Townsh. PI. 273. FERRUM. Iron. In old English law. A horse-shoe. Ferrura, shoeing of horses. FERRY. A liberty to have a boat upon a river for the transportation of men, horses, and carriages with their contents, for a rea sonable toll. The term is also used to desig nate the place where such liberty is exercised. See 42 Me. 9; 4 Mart. (N. S.) 426. "Ferry" properly means a place of transit across a river or arm of the sea; but in law it is treated as a franchise, and denned as the exclusive right to carry passengers across a river, or arm of the sea, from one vill to another, or to connect a con tinuous line of road leading from one township or vill to another. It is not a servitude or easement. It is wholly unconnected with the ownership or occupation of land, so much so that the owner of the ferry need not have any property in the soil adjacent on either side. (12 C. B., N. 8., 83.) Brown. FERRYMAN. One employed in taking persons across a river or other stream, in boats or other contrivances, at a ferry. 3 Ala. 160; 8 Dana, 158. FESTA IN CAPPIS. In old English law. Grand holidays, on which choirs wore caps. Jacob. Festinatio justitiro est noverca infor tunii. Hob. 97. Hasty justice is the step mother of misfortune. FESTING-MAN. In old English law. A frank-pledge, or one who was surety for

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