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cluded. Similarly, the "floor of the house" means the main part of the hall where the members sit, as distinguished from the gal leries, or from the corridors or lobbies. In England, the floor of a court is that part between the judge's bench and the front row of counsel. Litigants appearing in per son, in the high court or court of appeal, are supposed to address the court from the floor. FLORENTINE PANDECTS. A copy of the Pandects discovered accidentally about the year 1137, at Amalphi, a town in Italy, near Salerno. From Amalphi, the copy found its way to Pisa, and, Pisa having sub mitted to the Florentines in 1406, the copy was removed in great triumph to Florence. By direction of the magistrates of the town, it was immediately bound in a superb man ner, and deposited in a costly chest. For merly, these Pandects were shown only by torch-light, in the presence of two magis trates, and two Cistercian monks, with their heads uncovered. They have been succes sively collated by Politian, Bolognini, and Antonius Augustinus. An exact copy of them was published in 1553 by Franciscus Taurellus. For its accuracy and beauty, this edition ranks high among the ornaments of the press. Brenchman, who collated the manuscript about 1710, refers it to the sixth century. Butl. Hor. Jur. 90, 91. A coin originally made at Florence, now of the value of about two English shillings. FLOTAGES. 1. Such things as by acci dent swim on the top of great rivers or the sea. Cowell. 2. A commission paid to water bailiffs. Cun. Diet FLOTSAM, FLOTSAN. A name for the goods which float upon the sea when cast overboard for the safety of the ship, or when a ship is sunk. Distinguished from "Jet sam" and "ligan." Bract, lib. 2, c. 5; 5 Coke, 106; 1 Bl. Comm. 292. FLOUD-MARKE. In old English law. High-water mark; flood-mark. 1 And. 88, 89. FLOWING LANDS. This term has ac quired a definite and specific meaning in law. It commonly imports raising and set ting back water on another's land, by a dam placed across a stream or water-course which is the natural drain and outlet for surplus water on such land. Call v. Middle sex County Com'rs, 2 Gray (Mass.) 235. FLUCTUS. Flood; flood-tide. Bract fol. 255. FLUMEN. In Roman law. A servi tude which consists in the right to conduct the rain-water, collected from the roof and carried off by the gutters, onto the house or FLORIN.

FLIGHT. In criminal law. The act of one under accusation, who evades the law by voluntarily withdrawing himself. It is presumptive evidence of guilt. U. S. •. Candler (D. 0.) 65 Fed. 312. FLOAT. In American land law, espe cially in the western states. A certificate authorizing the entry, by the holder, of a certain quantity of land not yet specifically selected or located. U. S. T. Central Pac. R. Co. (C. C.) 26 Fed. 480; Hays v. Steiger, 76 Cal. 555, 18 Pac. 670; Wisconsin Cent. % Co. v. Price County, 133 U. S. 496, 10 Sup. Ot 341, 33 L. Ed. 687. FLOATABLE. Used for floating. A floatable stream is a stream used for floating logs, rafts, etc. Gerrish v. Brown, 51 Me. 260, 81 Am. Dec. 569; Gaston v. Mace, 33 W. Va. 14, 10 S. E. 60, 5 L. R. A. 392, 25 Am. St. Rep. 848; Parker v. Hastings, 123 N. C. 671, 31 S. E. 833. FLOATING CAPITAL, (or circulating capital.) The capital which is consumed at each operation of production and reappears transformed into new products. At each sale of these products the capital is rep resented in cash, and it is from its transfor mations that profit is derived. Floating cap ital includes raw materials destined for fab rication, such as wool and flax, products in the warehouses of manufacturers or mer chants, such as cloth and linen, and money for wages, and stores. De Laveleye, Pol. Ec. Capital retained for the purpose of meet ing current expenditure. FLOATING DEBT. By this term Is meant that mass of lawful and valid claims against the corporation for the payment of which there is no money in the corporate treasury specifically designed, nor any taxa tion nor other means of providing money to pay particularly provided. People v. Wood, 71 N. T. 374; City of Huron v. Second Ward Sav. Bank, 86 Fed. 276, 30 C. C. A. 38, 49 L. R. A. 534. Debt not in the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1290. State v. Faran, 24 Ohio St. 641; People v. Carpenter, 31 App. Div. 603, 62 N. T. Supp. 781. FLODE-MARK. Flood-mark, high-wa ter mark. The mark which the sea, at flow ing water and highest tide, makes on the shore. Blount. FLOOR. A section of a building between horizontal planes. Lowell v. Strahan, 145 Mass. 1, 12 N. E. 401, 1 Am. St Rep. 422. A term used metaphorically, in parlia mentary practice, to denote the exclusive right to address the body in session. A "member who has been recognized by the Chairman, and who is in order, is said to *b»ve the floor," until his remarks are con