Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FLUXUS

FLUXUS. In old English law. Flow. Per fiuxum et refluxum marts, by the flow and reflow of the sea. Dal. pi. 10. FLY FOR IT. On a criminal trial In former times, it was usual after a verdict of not guilty to inquire also, "Did heflyfor it?" This practice was abolished by the 7&8Geo. IV. c. 28, § 5. Wharton. FLYING SWITCH. In railroading, a flying switch is made by uncoupling the cars from the engine while in motion, and throw ing the cars onto the side track, by turning the switch, after the engine has passed it upon the main track. 29 Iowa, 39. See, also, 82 N. Y. 597, note. FLYMA. In old English law. A run away; fugitive; one escaped from justice, or who has no "hlaford." FLYMAN-FRYMTH. In old English law. The offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown. FOCAGE. House-bote;fire-bote. Cowell. FOCALE. In old English law. Fire wood. The right of taking wood for the fire. Fire-bote. Cunningham. FODDER. Food for horses or cattle. In feudal law, the term also denoted a preroga tive of the prince to be provided with corn, etc., for his horses by his subjects in his wars. FODERTORIUM. Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell. FODERUM. See FODDER. FODINA. A mine. Co. Litt 6a. FCEDUS. In international law. A trea ty; a league; a compact. FCEMINA VIRO CO-OPERTA. A married woman; a feme covert. Foeminse ab omnibus officiis eivilibus vel publicis remotse sunt. Women are excluded from all civil and public charges or offices. Dig. 50,17,2; 1 Exch. 645; 6 Mees. A W. 216. FceminsB non sunt capaces de publicis officiis. Jenk. Cent. 237. Women are not admissible to public offices. FCENERATION. Lending money at in terest; the act of putting out money to usury. FCENUS NAUTICUM. In the civil law. Nautical or maritime interest. An ex traordinary rate of interest agreed to be paid

for the loan of money on the hazard of a voy age; sometimes called "usura maritima." Dig. 22, 2; Code, 4, 33; 2 Bl. Comm. 458. The extraordinary rate of interest, proportioned to the risk, demanded by a person lending money on a ship, or on "bottomry," as it is termed. The agreement for such a rate of interest is also called u fcenu8 nauticum." (2 BL Comm. 458; 2 Stepn. Comm. 93.) Mozley & Whitley. FOSSA. In old records. Grass; herbage. 2 Mon. Angl. 9066; Cowell. FC3TICIDE. In medical jurisprudence. Destruction of the foetus; the act by which criminal abortion is produced. IBeck, Med. Jur. 288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133. FCETURA. In the civil law. The prod uce of animals, and the fruit of other prop erty, which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property by virtue of his right. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, c. 14, p. 81. FO3TUS. In medical jurisprudence. An unborn child. An infant in ventre sa mere. FOGAGIUM. In old English law. Fog age or fog; a kind of rank grass of late gro w th, and not eaten in summer. Spelman; Cowell. FOI. In French feudal law. Faith; fealty. Guyot, Inst. Feod. c. 2. FOINESUN. In old English law. The fawning of deer. Spelman. FOIRFAULT. In old Scotch law. To forfeit. 1 How. State Tr. 927. FOIRTHOCHT. In old Scotch law. Forethought; premeditated. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 90. FOITERERS. Vagabonds. Blount. FOLC-GEMOTE. In Saxon law. A general assembly of the people in a town or shire. It appears to have had judicial func tions of a limited nature, and also to have discharged political offices, such as deliberat ing upon the affairs of the commonwealth or complaining of misgovernment, and proba bly possessed considerable powers of local self-government. The nara« was also given to any sort of a popular assembly. See Spel man; Manwood; Cunningham. FOLC-LAND. In Saxon law. Land of the folk or people. Land belonging to the people or the public. Folc-land was the property of the community. It might be occupied in common, or possessed in severalty; and, in the latter case, it was probably parceled out to individuals in the folc-gemote or court of the district, and the grant sanctioned by the freemen who were there present. But, while it continued to be folc-land, it oould not be alienat

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