Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

FLOATABLE

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FLAGELLAT

F L E E FROM JUSTICE. To leave one's home, residence, or known place of abode, or to conceal one's self therein, with intent, in either case, to avoid detection or punishment for some public offense. 3 DilL 381; 48 Mo. 240. "FLEE TO THE WALL." A meta phorical expression, used in connection with homicide done in self-defense, signifying the exhaustion of every possible means of es cape, or of averting the assault, before kill ing the assailant. FLEET. A place where the tide flows; a creek, or inlet of water; a company of ships or navy; a prison in London, (so called from a river or ditch fccmerly in its vicini ty,) now abolished by 5 & 6 Viet. c. 22. FLEM. In Saxon and old English law* A fugitive bondman or villein. Spelman. The privilege of having the goods and fines of fugitives. FLEMENE FRIT, FLEMENES F R I N T H E—FLYMEN A FRYNTHE. The reception or relief of a fugitive or out law. Jacob. FLEMESWITE. The possession of the goods of fugitives. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 147. FLET. In Saxon law. Land; a house; home. FLETA. The name given to an ancient treatise on the laws of England, founded mainly upon the writings of Bracton and Glanville, and supposed to have been written in the time of Edw. I. The author is un known, but it is surmised that he was a judge or learned lawyer who was at that time con fined in the Fleet prison, whence the name of the book. FLICHWITE. In Saxon law. A fine on account of brawls and quarrels. Spel man. FLIGHT. In criminal law. The act of one under accusation, who evades the law by voluntarily withdrawing himself. It is pre sumptive evidence of guilt. FLOAT. In American land law, espe cially in the western states. A certificate authorizing the entry, by the holder, of a cer tain quantity of land. 20 How. 501, 504. FLOATABLE. Used for floating. A floatable stream is a stream used for floating logs, rafts, etc. 2 Mich. 519.

flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeed ing such admission." FLAGELLAT. Whipped; scourged. An entry on old Scotch recoids. 1 Pitc. Grim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 7. FLAGRANS. Burning; raging; in act ual perpetration. Flagians helium, a war actually going on. FLAGRANS CRIMEN. In Roman law. A fresh or recent ciimp. This term designated a crime in the very act of its commission, or while it was of recent occur rence. FLAGRANT DELIT. In French law. A crime which is in actual process of per petration or which has just been committed. Code d'Instr. Crim. art. 41. FLAGRANT NECESSITY. A case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act, as an assault to remove a man from impending danger. FLAGRANTE BELLO. During an actual state of war. FLAGRANTE DELICTO. In the very act of committing the crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 307. FLASH CHECK. A check drawn upon a banker by a person who has no funds at the banker's, and knows that such is the case. FLAT. A place covered with water too shallow for navigation with vessels ordina rily used for commeicialpurposes. 34 Conn. 370; 7 Cush. 195. FLAVIANUM JUS. In Roman law. The title of a book containing the forms of actions, published by Cneius Fla vius, A. U. C. 449. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 39. Calvin. FLECTA. Cowell. A feathered or fleet arrow. FLEDWITE. A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been an outlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley. The liberty to hold court and take up the amercements for beating and striking. Cowell. The fine set on a fugitive as the price of obtaining the king's freedom. Spelman.

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