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Fence






Fence

A building or erection between two contiguous estates, so as to divide them; or on the same estate, so as to divide one part from another.

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Building
Estates. An edifice erected by art, and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.



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Fence parole
In the US penitentiary slang, escape.



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Feme covert
A married woman: under the wing, protection or cover of her husband.

Feme covert or feme-covert
A married woman. By marriage, husband and wife are one person in law. Under his protection and "cover", she does everything; and is therefore called in law a feme covert (french); while her condition is called "coverture". 1 Bl. Com. 442; 2 id. 292, 433, 497; 32 Barb. 258; 63 Ill. 162; 21 How. 589.

Feme sole or feme-sole
A single woman; one who has never been married, who has been judicially separated from her husband, or whose mariage has been disolved by divorce from, or by the death of, the husband. A married woman who, in matters of property, is independent of her husband, is a feme sole as to such property, and may deal with it as if she were unmarried.

Feminine
What belongs to the female sex.

Femme
or feme. Woman.

Fence

Feod
The same as fief. Vide Fief or Feud.

Feoffee
The grantee of a feud.

Feoffment
1) The gift of a feud; infeudation. 2) The gift of any corporeal hereditament by delivery of possession upon or within view of the land.

Feoffor
The grantor of a feud.

Ferae
Wild, savage, not tame.

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