Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FUGITATION

defends the force (or wrong) and injury when and where it shall behoove him, and the dam ages, and whatsoever else he ought to defend, and says," etc. Steph. PL p. 481. FULL LIFE. Life in fact and in law. See IN FULL LIFE. FULL PROOF. In the civil law. Proof by two witnesses, or a public instrument. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 9, nn. 25, 30; 3 Bl. Comm. 370. Evidence which satisfies the minds of the jury of the truth of the fact in dispute, to the entire exclusion of every reasonable doubt. 38 N. J. Law, 450. FULL RIGHT. The union of a good title with actual possession. FULLUM AQUJE. A fleam, or stream of water. Blount. FUMAGE. In old English law. The same as fuage, or smoke farthings. 1 Bl. Comm. 324. See FUAQE. FUNCTION. Office; duty; fulfillment of a definite end or set of ends by the correct adjustment of means. The occupation of ar office. By the performance of its duties, the officer is said to fill his function. Dig. 32, 65,1. FUNCTIONARY. A public officer or employe. An officer of a private corporation is also sometimes so called. FUNCTUS OFFICIO. Lat. Having ful filled the function, discharged the office, or accomplished the purpose, and therefore of no further force or authority. Applied to an officer whose term has expired, and who has consequently no further official authority; and also to an instrument, power, agency, etc., which has fulfilled the purpose of its creation, and is therefore of no further vir tue or effect. FUND, v. To capitalize, with a view to the production of interest. 24 N. J. Eq. 376. To fund a debt is to pledge a specific fund to keep down interest and reduce the principal. When extinguishment of the debt is the object promi nently contemplated, the provision is called a " sink ing fund." The term "fund" was originally ap plied to a portion of the national revenue set apart or pledged to the payment of a particular debt. Hence a funded debt was a debt for the payment of the principal or interest of which some fund was appropriated. 14 N. Y. 356, 867, 377; 21 Barb. 294. FUND, n. A sum of money set apart for a specific purpose, or available for the pay ment of debts or claims.

law for non-appearance in a criminal case. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 350. FCTGITATION. In Scotch law. When a criminal does not obey the citation to an swer, the court pronounces sentence of fu gitation against him, which induces a for feiture of goods and chattels to the crown. FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE. A per son who, having committed a crime, flies from the state or country where it tians pired, in ordei to evade arrest and escape justice. FUG I T I V E OFFENDERS. In En glish law. Where a person accused of any offense punishable by imprisonment, with hard labor for twelve months or more, has left that part of her majesty's dominions where the offense ia alleged to have been committed, he is liable, if found in any other part of her majesty's dominions, to be appre hended and returned in manner provided by the fugitive offenders' act, 1881, to the part from which he ia a fugitive Wharton. FUGITIVE SLAVE. One who, held in bondage, flees from his master's power. FUGITIVUS. In the civil law. A fugitive; a runaway slave. Dig. 11,4; Cod. 6, 1. See the various definitions of this word in Dig. 21, 1, 17. FULL. Complete; exhaustive; detailed. A "full" answer is as extensive a term, in describing one which is ample and sufficient, as though the term "complete" had been su peradded. 22 Ala. 817 FULL AGE. In common law. The age of twenty-one years, in males and females. Litt. § 259; 1 Bl. Comm. 463. In the civil law. The age of twenty-five years, in males and females. Inst. 1, 23, pr. FULL BLOOD. A term of relation, denoting descent from the same couple. Brothers and sisters of full blood are those who are born of the same father and mother, or, as Justinian calls them, u ex utroque parente conjuncti." Nov, 118* cc. 2, 3; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 145. The more usual term in modern law is " whole blood," (g. v.) FULL COURT. In practice. A court in bane. A court duly organized with all the judges present. FULL DEFENSE. In pleading. The formula of defense in a plea, stated at length and without abbreviation, thus: "And the aaid C. D., by E. F., his attorney, comes and

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