KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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FAMILY

FARM

FAR1MEX OF LAND. In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton. FARDEIXA. In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, § 10. FARDING-DEAX. The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman. FARE. A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Cowell. The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for carrying a passenger. Chase v. New York Cent. R. Co., 26 N. Y. 526. FARINAGIUM. A mill; a toll of meal or flour. Jacob; Spelman. FARIiEU. Money paid by tenants In lieu of a heriot It was often applied to the best chattel, as distinguished from heriot, the best beast. Cowell. FARLINGARII. Whoremongers and adulterers. FARM, n. A certain amount of provision reserved as the rent of a messuage. Spel man. Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid in money, it was called. "Uanche prmc." Spelman; 2 Bl. Comm. 42. A term, a lease of lands; a leasehold in terest. 2 Bl. Comm. 17; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 301, note. The land itself, let to farm or rent. 2 BL Comm. 368. A portion of land used for agricultural purposes, either wholly or In part. The original meaning of the word was "rent," and by a natural transition it came to mean the land out of which the rent is sued. In old English law. A lease of other things than land, as of imposts. There were several of these, such as "the sugar farm," "the silk farm," and farms of wines and cur rents, called "petty farms." See 2 How. State Tr. 1197-1206. In American law. "Farm" denotes a tract of land devoted in part, at least, to cul tivation, for agricultural purposes, without reference to its extent, or to the tenure by which it is held. In re Drake (D. C.) 114 Fed. 231; People ex rel. Rogers v. Caldwell, 142 111. 434, 32 N. E. 691; Kendall v. Miller, 47 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 448; Com. v. Carmalt, 2 Bin. (Pa.) 238. To lease or let; to demise or grant for a limited term and at a stated rental. —Farm let. Operative words in a lease, •which strictly mean to let upon payment of a FARM, v.

tilage, in legal phrase. Wilson y. Cochran, 31 Tex. 677, 98 Am. Dec. 553. "Family" may mean children, wife and chil dren, blood-relatives, or the members of the domestic circle, according to the connection in which the word is used. Spencer v. Spencer, 11 Paige (N. Y.) 159. "Family," in popular acceptation, includes parents, children, and servants,—all whose dom icile or home is ordinarily in the same house and under the same management and head. In a statute providing that to gain a settle ment in a town one must have "supported him self and his family therein" for six years, it in cludes the individuals whom it was the right of the head to control, and his duty to sup port The wife is a member of the family, within such an enactment. Cheshire v. Bur lington, 31 Conn. 326. —Family arrangement. A term denoting an agreement between a father and his chil dren, or between the heirs of a deceased fa ther, to dispose of property, or to partition it in a different manner than that which would result if the law alone directed it, or to divide up property without administration. In these cases, frequently, the mere relation of the par ties will give effect to bargains otherwise with out adequate consideration. 1 Chit. Pr. 67; 1 Turn. & R. 13— Family Bible. A Bible containing a record of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family.— Fam ily meeting. An institution of the laws of Louisiana, being a council of the relatives (or, if there are no relatives, of the friends) of a minor, for the purpose of advising as to his affairs and the administration of his property. The family meeting is called by order of a judge, and presided over by a justice or notary, and must consist of at least five persons, who are put under oath. In re Bothick, 44 La, Ann. 1037, 11 South. 712; Civ. Code La. art. 305. It corresponds to the "conseil de famille" of French law, q. V. — Family settlement. A term of practically the same signification as "family arrangement," g. v. supra. See Willey v. Hodge, 104 Wis. 81, 80 N. W. 75, 76 Am. St. Rep. 852. reputation; defamatory; slanderous. — Famoini libellns. A libelous writing. A term of the civil law denoting that species of injuria which corresponds nearly to libel or slander. FANAIi. FT. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel's stern. Persons pretending to be Inspired, and being a general name for Qua kers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the Church of England. (St 13 Car. II. c. 6.) Jacob. In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but In the Spanish settlements in America con sisting of 6,400 square varas or yards. A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beg gar. FANATICS. FANEGA. FAQUEEB, or FAKIR. FAMOSUS. In the civil and old English law. Relating to or affecting character or

FARANDMAN.

In Scotch law. A trav

eler or merchant stranger. Skene.