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Faubourg






Faubourg

A district or part of a town adjoinng the principal city; as, a faubourg of New Orleans.

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District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.

Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.

Principal
1) This word has several meanings. It is used in opposition to accessary, to show the degree of crime committed by two persons; thus, we say, the principal is more guilty than the accessary after the fact. 2) Contracts. One who, being competent to contract, and who is sui juris, employs another to do any act for his own benefit, or on his own account. 3) Criminal law. A principal is one who is the actor in the commission of a crime.

City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.

Faubourg
A district or part of a town adjoinng the principal city; as, a faubourg of New Orleans.



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In latin, socer, is the father of one's wife, or of one's hushand.

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Legal principles and concepts promoting the idea that custody decisions must not discriminate against fathers.

Fathom
A measure of length, equal to six feet. The word is probably derived from the Teutonic word fad, which signifies the thread or yarn drawn out in spinning to the length of the arm, before it is run upon the spindle.

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Fault
Contracts, Civil law. An improper act or omission, which arises from ignorance, carelessness, or negligence. The act or omission must not have been meditated, and must have caused some injury to another.

Fault based divorce
A type of divorce to be granted if one member of the marriage is guilty of some kind of marital misconduct.

Faute lourde
Gross negligence.The type of fault described by Potheir as: "...le soin que les personnes les moins soigneuses et les plus stupides ne manquent pas d'apporter à leurs affaires" (translation: the care which the least careful and most stupid persons do not fail to devote to their own affairs).

Favor
Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice.

Feal
Faithful. This word is not used.

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