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FLACO

FLICHWITE

L. & P. Co. (C. C.) 55 Fed. 231; Security L. & T. Co. v. Willamette, etc., Mfg. Co., 99 Cal. 636, 34 Pac. 321. FliACO. A place covered with standing water. FLAG.. A national standard on which are certain emblems; an ensign; a banner. It is carried by soldiers, ships, etc., and com monly displayed at forts and many other suitable places. — Flag, duty of the. This was an ancient ceremony in acknowledgment of British sover eignty over the British seas, by which a foreign vessel struck her flag and lowered her top-sail on meeting the British flag.— Flag of the United States. By the act entitled "An act to establish the flag of the United States,"

ELECTA. A featheied or fleet arrow. Cowell.

FLEDWITE. A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been an outlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley. The liberty to hold court and take up the amercements for beating and striking. Cow ell. The fine set on a fugitive as the price of obtaining the king's freedom. Spelman. To leave one's home, residence, or known place of abode, or to conceal one's self therein, with intent, in either case, to avoid detection or punish ment for some public offense. Streep v. U. S., 160 U. S. 128, 16 Sup. Ct. 244, 40 L. Ed. 365; Lay v. State, 42 Ark. 110; U. S. v. O'Brian, 3 Dill. 381, Fed. Cas. No. 15,908; United States v. Smith, 4 Day (Conn.) 125, Fed. Cas. No. 16,332; State v. Washburn, 48 Mo. 241. A metaphorical expression, used in connection with homi cide done in self-defense, signifying the ex haustion of every possible means of escape, or of averting the assault, before killing the assailant. A place where the tide flows; a creek, or inlet of water; a company of ships or navy; a prison in London, (so call ed from a river or ditch formerly in ita vicinity,) now abolished by 5 & 6 Vict c. 22. In Saxon and old English law. A fugitive bondman or villein. Spelman. The privilege of having the goods and fines of fugitives. FLEE FROM JUSTICE. FLEE TO THE WALL. FLEET. FLEM.

FLEMENE

FR I T ,

F L EME N E S

FRINTHE—FLYMENA FRYNTHE. The reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw. Jacob.

FLEMESWITE.

The possession of the

goods of fugitives. Fleta, lib. 1, c 147.

FLET.

In Saxon law. Land; a house;

home.

FLETA. The name given to an ancient treatise on the laws of England, founded mainly upon the writings of Bracton and Glanville, and supposed to have been written in the time of Edw. I. The author is un known, but it is surmised that he was a judge or learned lawyer who was at that time confined in the Fleet prison, whence the name of the book. In Saxon law. A fine on account of brawls and quarrels. Spel man. FLICHWITE.