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Ferry






Ferry

A place where persons and things are taken across a river or other stream in boats or other vessels, for hire.

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Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.

Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.

River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.

Stream
A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream.

Hire
"Contracts. A bailment, where a compensation is to be given for the use of a thing, or for labor or services about it. The contract of letting and hiring is usually divided into two kinds; first, Locatio, or Locatio conductio rei, the bailment of a thing to be used by the hirer, for a compensation to be paid by him. Secondly, Locatio operis, or the hire of the labor and services of the hirer, for a compensation to be paid by the letter.



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Ferrari lawyer
A lawyer representing Italian multinational sports car maker Ferrari.

Ferryman
One employed in taking persons across a river or other stream, in boats or other contrivances at a ferry. The owner of a ferry is not considered a ferryman, when it is rented and in the possession of a tenant.



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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.

Ferae bestiae
Wild beasts.Ferae naturce.

Ferm or fearm
By this ancient word is meant land, fundus and, it is said, houses and tenements may pass by it.

Ferry

Ferryman
One employed in taking persons across a river or other stream, in boats or other contrivances at a ferry. The owner of a ferry is not considered a ferryman, when it is rented and in the possession of a tenant.

Festinum remedium
A speedy remedy.

Fetters
A sort of iron put on the legs of malefactors, or persons accused of crimes.

Feud
This word, in Scotland, signifies a combination of kindred to revenge injuries or affronts done to any of their blood.

Feuda
In the early feudal times grants were made, in the first place, only during the pleasure of the grantor, and called muncra; afterwards for life, called beneficia; and, finally, they were extended to the vassal and his sons, and then they acquired the name offeudal.

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