KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

FERLINGUS

FEODUM TALLIATUM

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FEONATIO. In forest law. The fawn ing season of deer. FEORME. A certain portion of the prod uce of the land due by the grantee to the lord according to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7. FERiE BKSTXa:. Wild beasts. FERiE NATURiE. Lat Of a wild na ture or disposition. Animals which are by nature wild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latter being called "domitce naturce." Fleet v. Hegeman, 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 43; State v. Taylor, 27 N. J. Law, 119, 72 Am. Dec 347; Gillet v. Mason, 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 17. FERCOSTA. Ital. A kind of small ves sel or boat Mentioned in old Scotch law, and called "fercost." Skene. FERDELLA TERRiE. A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell. FERDFARE. Sax. A summons to serve in the army. An acquittance from going into the army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 23. FERDINGUS. A term denoting, appar ently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotseti. FERDWITE. In Saxon law. An acquit tance of manslaughter committed in the army; also a fine imposed on persons for not going forth on a military expedition. Cow ell. FERIA. In old English law. A week day ; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell; Du Cange; Spelman. FERL2E. In Roman law. Holidays; gen erally speaking, days or seasons during which free-born Romans suspended their po litical transactions and their lawsuits, and during which slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor, all ferics were thus dies nefasti. All fericB were divided into two classes,— "feria publicw" and "ferice privatas," The latter were only observed by single families or in dividuals, in commemoration of some partic ular event which had been of importance to them or their ancestors. Smith, Diet Antiq. FERIAL DAYS. Holidays; also week days, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell. FERFTA. In old European law. A wound; a stroke. Spelman. FERLING. In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borough. FERLINGATA. A fourth part of a yard land. FERLINGUS. A furlong. Co. Litt 56.

pure; and thus fee-simple is the same as a lawful inheritance, or pure inheritance. Feodum talliatum, 1. e., hsereditas in qnandam certitudinem limitata. Litt. § 13. Fee-tail, i. e., an inheritance limited in a definite descent. FEOFFAMENTUM. A feoffment 2 BL Comm. 310. FEOFFABE. To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called "feoffator," and the grantee or feoffee, "feoffatus." FEOFFATOR. In old English law. A feoffer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment Bract fols. 126, 81. FEOFFATUS. In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is give*n, or a feoffment made. Bract fols. 176, 446. FEOFFEE. He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt. 6 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20. —Feoffee to uses. A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called "cestui que use." FEOFFMENT. The gift of any corpo real hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310), operating by transmutation of posses sion, and requiring, as essential to its com pletion, that the seisen be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183), which might be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 33. See Thatcher v. Omans, 3 Pick. (Mass.) 532; French v. French, 3 N. H. 260; Perry v. Price, 1 Mo. 554; Orndoff v. Turman, 2 Leigh (Va.) 233, 21 Am. Dec. 608. Also the deel or conveyance by which such corporeal hereditament is passed. A feoffment originally meant the grant of a feud or fee; that is, a barony or knight's fee, for which certain services were due from the feoffee to the feoffor. This was the proper sense of the word; but by custom it came aft erwards to signify also a grant (with livery of seisin) of a free inheritance to a man, and his heirs, referring rather to the perpetuity of the estate than to the feudal tenure. 1 Reeve, Bng. Law, 90, 91. It was for ages the only method (in ordinary use) for conveying the freehold of land in possession, but has now fallen in great measure into disuse, even in England, having been almost entirely supplanted by some of that class of conveyances founded on the statute law of the realm. 1 Steph. Comm. 467, 468. —Feoffment to uses. A feoffment of lands to one person to the use of another. FEOFFOR. The person making a feoff ment, or enfeoffing another in fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 310; Litt. §§ 1, 57. FEOH. This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and, by a second transition, wages, reward, or