KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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FRENETICUS

FRISCUS

FRETTTJM, FRECTUM. In old English law. The freight of a ship; freight money. Cowell. FRETUM. Lat A strait —Fretum Britannicum. The strait 'be tween Dover and Calais. FRIARS. An order of religious persons, of whom there were four principal branches, viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Francis cans; (2) Augustines; (3) Dominicans, or Black Friars; (4) White Friars, or Carmel ites, from whom the rest descend. Wharton. FRIBUSCULUM. In the civil law. A temporary separation between husband and wife, caused by a quarrel or estrangement but not amounting to a divorce, because not accompanied with an intention to dissolve the marriage. FRIDBORG, FRITHBORG. Frank pledge. Cowell. Security for the peace. Spelman. FRIDHBURGUS. In old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by which the lords or principal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants. Bract fol. 1246. FRIEND OF THE COURT. See AMICUS CURIAE. FRIENDLESS MAN. In old English law. An outlaw; so called because he was denied all help of friends. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c 12. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. In English law. Associations supported by subscrip tion, for the relief and maintenance of the members, or their wives, children, relatives, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. The statutes regulat ing these societies were consolidated and amended by St. 38 & 39 Vict c. 60. Whar ton. FRIENDLY SUIT. A suit brought by a creditor in chancery against an executor or administrator, being really a suit by the ex ecutor or administrator, in the name of a creditor, against himself, in order to compel the creditors to take an equal distribution of the assets. 2 Williams, Ex'rs, 1915. Also any suit instituted by agreement be tween the parties to obtain the opinion of the court upon some doubtful question in which they are interested. FRIGIDITY. Impotence. Johnson. FRILINGI. Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman. FRISCUS. Fresh uncultivated ground. Mon. Angl. t. 2, p. 56. Fresh; not salt Reg. Orig. 97. Recent or new. See FBBSH, and sub-titles thereunder.

FRENETICUS. In old English law. A madman, or person in a frenzy. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 36. FREOBORGH. A free-surety, or free pledge. Spelman. See FBANK-PLEDGK. FREQUENT, v. To visit often; to re sort to often or habitually. Green v. State, 109 Ind. 175, 9 N. E. 781; State v. Ah Sam, 14 Or. 347, 13 Pac. 303. Frequentia actus multum operatur. The frequency of an act effects much. 4 Coke, 78; Wing. Max. p. 719, max. 192. A continual usage is of great effect to establish a right FRERE. Fr. A brother. Frere eyrie, elder brother. Frere puisne, younger broth er. Britt c. 75. FRESCA. In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood. FRESH. Immediate; recent; following without any material interval. —Fresh, disseisin. By the ancient common law, where a man had been disseised, he was allowed to right himself by force, by ejecting the disseisor from the premises, without resort to law, provided this was done forthwith, while the disseisin was fresh, {flagrante disseisina.) Bract fol. 1626. No particular time was lim ited for doing this, but Bracton suggested it should be fifteen days. Id. fol. 163. See Britt. cc. 32, 43, 44, 65.—Fresh fine. In old English law. A fine that had been levied within a year past. St. Westm. 2, c. 45; Oowell.—Fresh force. Force done within forty days. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 7; Old Nat. Brev. 4. The heir or reversioner in a case of disseisin by fresh force was allowed a remedy in chancery by bill before the mayor. Cowell.—Fresh pursuit. A pur suit instituted immediately, and with intent to reclaim or recapture, after an animal es caped, a thief flying with stolen goods, etc. People v. Pool, 27 Cal. 578; White v. State, 70 Miss. 253, 11 South. 632.—Fresh suit. In old English law. Immediate and unremit ting pursuit of an escaping thief. "Such a present and earnest following of a robber as never ceases from the time of the robbery until apprehension. # The party pursuing then had back again his goods, which otherwise were forfeited to the crown." Staundef. P. C. lib. 3, cc. 10, 12; 1 Bl. Comm. 297. FRESHET. A flood, or overflowing of a river, by means of rains or melted snow; an inundation. Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 42; Harris v. Social Mfg. Co., 9R.L 99, 11 Am. Rep. 224. FRET. Fr. In French marine law. Freight. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 3. FRETER. Fr. In French marine law. To freight a ship; to let it Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, $ 1. FRETEUR. Fr. In French marine law. Freighter. The owner of a ship, who lets it to the merchant Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, 13.