Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FKIDHBURGUS

FREIGHTER

FRESH FORCE. Force done within forty days. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 7; Old Nat. Brev. 4. The heir or reversioner in a case of disseisin by fresh force was allowed a remedy in chancery by bill before the mayor. Cowell. FRESH PURSUIT. A pursuit insti tuted immediately, and with intent to reclaim or recapture, after an animal escaped, a thief flying with stolen goods, etc. FRESH SUIT. In old English law. Immediate and unremitting pursuit of an es caping thief. "Such a present and ear nest following of a robber as never ceases from the time of the robbery until apprehension. The party pursuing then had back again his goods, which otherwise were forfeited to the crown." Staundef. P. C. lib. 3, cc. 10, 12; 1 Bl. Comm. 297. FRESHET. A flood, or overflowing of a river, by means of rains or melted snow; an inundation. 3Phila. 42. FRET. Fr. In French marine law. Freight. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 3. FRETER. Fr. In French marine law. To freight a ship; to let it. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, § 3. FRETEUR. Fr. In French marine law. Freighter. The owner of a ship, who lets it to the merchant. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, §3. FRETTUM, FRECTUM. In old En glish law. The freight of a ship; freight money. Cowell. FRETUM. A strait. FRETUM BRITANNICUM. The strait between Dover and Calais. FRIARS. An order of religious persons, of whom there were four piincipal branches, viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Francis cans; (2) Augustines; (3) Dominicans, or Black Friars; (4) White Friais, or Carmel ites, from whom the rest descend. Wharton. FRIBUSCULUM. In the civil law. A temporary separation between husband and wife, caused by a quarrel or estrangement, but not amounting to a divorce, because not accompanied with an intention to dissolve the marriage. FRIDBORG, FRITHBORG. Frank pledge. Cowell. Security for the peace. Spel man. FRIDHBURGUS. In old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by which the lords or

voyage is broken up by vis major, and no freight earned, no wages, eo nomine, are due. FREIGHTER. In maritime law. The party by whom a vessel is engaged or char tered; otherwise called the "charterer." 2 Steph. Comm. 148. In French law, thecwner of a vessel is called the "freighter," (freteur;) the merchant who hires it is called the "af freighter," {affreteur.) Emerig. Tr. des Ass. ch. 11, § 3. FRENCHMAN. In early times, in En glish law, this term was applied to every stranger or "outlandish" man. Bract, lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 15. FRENDLESMAN. Sax. An outlaw. So called because on his outlawry he was de nied all help of friends after certain days. Cowell; Blount. FRENDWITE. In old English law. A mulct or fine exacted from him who harbored an outlawed friend. Cowell; Tomlins. FRENETICUS. In old English law. A madman, or person in a frenzy. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 36. FREOBORGH. A free-surety, or free pledge. Spelman. See FRANK-PLEDGE. FREQUENT, «. To visit often; to re sort to often or habitually. 109 Ind. 176, 9 N. E. Rep. 781. Frequentia aetus multum operatur. The frequency of an act effects much. 4 Coke, 78; Wing. Max. p. 719, max. 192. A continual usage is of great effect to establish a right. FRERE. A brother. Frere eyne, elder brother. Frere puisne, younger brother. Britt. c. 75. JPRESCA. In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood. FRESH DISSEISIN. By the ancient common law, where a man had been disseised, he was allowed to right himseli by force, by ejecting the disseisor from the premises, without resort to law, provided this was done forthwith, while the disseisin was fresh, {fiagrante disseisina.) Bract, fol. 1626. No particular time was limited for doing this, but Bracton suggested it should be fifteen days. Id. fol. 163. See Britt. cc. 32, 43, 44, 65. FRESH FINE. In old English law. A fine that had been levied within a year past. St. Westm. 2, c. 45; Cowell.

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