KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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FEBM, or FEARM. A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell. A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture or lease. Plowd. 195,; Vicat. See FABM. Beverages produced by, or which have undergone, a process of alcoholic fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, in cluding beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but not spirituous or distilled liquors. State T. Lemp, 16 Mo. 391; State v. Biddle, 54 N. H. 383; People v. Foster, 64 Mich. 715, 31 N. W. 596; State v. Gill, 89 Minn. 502, 95 N. W. 449; State v. Adams, 51 N. H. 568. FERMER, FERMOR. A lessee; a farm er. One who holds a term, whether of lands or an incorporeal right, such as customs or revenue. FERME. FERMENTED LIQUORS. FERMISONA. In old English law. The winter season for killing deer. In old records. A place in monasteries, where they received the poor, (hospicio excipiebant,) and gave them pro visions, (ferm, firma.) Spelman. Hence the modern infirmary, used in the sense of a hos pital. FERMORY. FERNIGO. In old English law. A waste ground, or place where fern grows. Cowell. FERRI. In the civil law. To be borne; that is on or about the person. This was dis tinguished from portari, (to be carried,) which signified to be carried on an animal. Dig. 60, 16, 235. FERRIAGE. The toll or fare paid for the transportation of persons and property across a ferry. Laterally speaking, it is the price or fare fix ed by law for the transportation of the trav eling public, with such goods and chattels as they may have with them, across a river, bay, or lake. People v. San Francisco & A. R. Co., 35 Cal. 606. FERRTTM. Iron. In old English law. A horse-shoe. Ferrura, shoeing of horses. FERRY. A liberty to have a boat upon a river for the transportation of men, horses, and carriages with their contents, for a rea sonable toll. The term is also used to desig nate the place where such liberty is exer cised. See New York v. Starin, 8 N. Y. St Rep. 655; Broadnax v. Baker, 94*N. C. 681, 55 Am, Rep. 633; Einstman v. Black, 14 I1L FERMIER. In French law. One who farms any public revenue. FERRIFODINA. In old pleading. An iron mine. Townsh. PI. 273.

App. 381; Chapelle v. Wells, 4 Mart (La. N. S.) 426. "Ferry" properly means a place of transit across a river or arm of the sea; but in law it is treated as a franchise, and defined as the exclusive right to carry passengers across a river, or arm of the sea, from one vill to an other, or to connect a continuous line of road leading from one township or vill to another. It is not a servitude or easement. It is wholly unconnected with the ownership or occupation of land, so much so that the owner of the ferry need not have any property in the soil adjacent on either side. (12 C. B., N. S., 32.) Brown. —Public and private. A public ferry is one to which all the public have the right to resort, for which a regular fare is established, and the ferryman is a common carrier, bound to take over all who apply, and bound to keep his ferry in operation and good repair. Hudspeth v. Hal], 111 Ga. 510, 36 S. E. 770; Broadnax y. Baker, 94 N. C. 681, 55 Am. Rep. 633. A pri vate ferry is one mainly for the use of the own er, and though he may take pay for ferriage, he does not follow it as a business. His ferry is not open to the public at its demand, and he may or may not keep it in operation. Huds peth v. Hall, supra.— Terry franchise. The public grant of a right to maintain a ferry at a particular place; a right conferred to land at a particular point and secure toll «for the transportation of persons and property from that point across the stream. Mills v. St. Clair County, 7 111. 208.—Ferryman. One employed in taking persons across a river or other stream, in boats or other contrivances, at a ferry. State v. Clarke, 2 McCord (S. C.) 48, 13 Am. Dec. 701. FESTA IN CAPFIS. In old English law. Grand holidays, on which choirs wore caps. Jacob. Festinatio justitles est noveroa infor tunii. Hob. 97. Hasty justice is the step mother of misfortune. FESTING-MAN. In old English law. A frank-pledge, or one who was surety for the good behavior of another. Monasteries enjoyed the privilege of being "free from festing-men," which means that they were "not bound for any man's forthcoming who should transgress the law." Cowell. See FB ANK - PliED GE. FESTING-PENNY. Earnest given to servants when hired or retained. The same as arles-penny. Cowell. FESTINUM REMEDIUM. La t A speedy remedy. The writ of assise was thus characterized (in comparison with the less expeditious remedies previously available) by the statute of Westminster 2, (13 Edw. I. c. 24.) FESTUM. A feast or festival. Festum stultorum, the feast of fools. FETTERS. Chains or shackles for the feet; irons used to secure the legs of con victs, unruly prisoners, etc Similar chains securing the wrists are called "handcuffs." FEU. In Scotch law. A holding or tenure where the vassal, in place of military serv-