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FiefFief or Feud. In its origin, a fief was a district of country allotted to one of the chiefs who invaded the Roman empire, as a stipend or reward; with a condition annexed that the possessor should do service faithfully both at home and in the wars, to him by whom it was given. The law of fiefs supposed that originally all lands belonged to lords, who had had the generosity to abandon them to others, from whom the actual possessors derive their rights upon the sole reservation of certain services more or less onerous as a sign of superiority. To this superiority was added that which gives the right of dispensing justice, a right which was originally attached to all fiefs, and conferred upon those who possessed it, the most eminent part of public power.
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Fief
Fief or Feud. In its origin, a fief was a district of country allotted to one of the chiefs who invaded the Roman empire, as a stipend or reward; with a condition annexed that the possessor should do service faithfully both at home and in the wars, to him by whom it was given. The law of fiefs supposed that originally all lands belonged to lords, who had had the generosity to abandon them to others, from whom the actual possessors derive their rights upon the sole reservation of certain services more or less onerous as a sign of superiority. To this superiority was added that which gives the right of dispensing justice, a right which was originally attached to all fiefs, and conferred upon those who possessed it, the most eminent part of public power.
Feud
This word, in Scotland, signifies a combination of kindred to revenge injuries or affronts done to any of their blood.
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Empire
This word signifies, first, authority or command; it is the power to command or govern those actions of men which would otherwise be free; secondly, the country under the government of an emperor but sometimes it is used to designate a country subject to kingly power.
Reward
An offer of recompense given by authority of law for the performance of some act for the public good; which, when the act has been performed, is to be paid; or it is the recompense actually paid.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Possessor
He who holds, detains or enjoys a thing, either by himself or his agent, which he claims as his own.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Home
Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently.
Actual
Real; actual.
Sole
Alone, single; used in contradistinction to joint or married. A sole tenant, therefore, is one who holds lands in his own right, without being joined with any other. A feme sole is a single woman; a sole corporation is one composed of only one natural person.
Reservation
Contracts. That part of a deed or other instrument which reserves a thing not in esse at the time of the grant, but newly created.
Sign
1) Contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words.2) Measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. 3) Merchant law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Possessed
This word is applied to the right and enjoyment of a termor or a person having a term, who is said to be possessed, and not seized.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
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Fides
Latin. Trust, confidence, reliance; credence, belief, faith.
Fides servanda
Faith must be kept; the good faith of a transaction will be given effect. A maxim with regard to sales of personalty. If there is no express warranty, general rules of implication should be adopted with this maxim in view. A warranty will be implied only when good faith requires it.
Fiducia
Civil law. A contract by which we sell a thing to some one, that is, transmit to him the property of the thing, with the solemn forms of emancipation, on condition that he will sell it back to us. This species of contract took place in the emancipation of children, in testaments, and in pledges.
Fiduciary
This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament.
Fiduciary duty
The acts necessary (usually of an authorized employee or agent) to carry out a responsibility to care for assets prudently.
Fief
Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.
Fieri
Latin. To be done; to be made. Compare Facere.
Fieri facias
A writ of fieri facias commands a sheriff to take and sell enough property from the person who lost the law suit, to pay the debt owed by the judgment.
Fieri feci
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or other proper officer, makes to certain writs, signifying, "I have caused to be made."
Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.
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Fief
Fief or Feud. In its origin, a fief was a district of country allotted to one of the chiefs who invaded the Roman empire, as a stipend or reward; with a condition annexed that the possessor should do service faithfully both at home and in the wars, to him by whom it was given. The law of fiefs supposed that originally all lands belonged to lords, who had had the generosity to abandon them to others, from whom the actual possessors derive their rights upon the sole reservation of certain services more or less onerous as a sign of superiority. To this superiority was added that which gives the right of dispensing justice, a right which was originally attached to all fiefs, and conferred upon those who possessed it, the most eminent part of public power.
Feud
This word, in Scotland, signifies a combination of kindred to revenge injuries or affronts done to any of their blood.
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Empire
This word signifies, first, authority or command; it is the power to command or govern those actions of men which would otherwise be free; secondly, the country under the government of an emperor but sometimes it is used to designate a country subject to kingly power.
Reward
An offer of recompense given by authority of law for the performance of some act for the public good; which, when the act has been performed, is to be paid; or it is the recompense actually paid.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Possessor
He who holds, detains or enjoys a thing, either by himself or his agent, which he claims as his own.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Home
Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently.
Actual
Real; actual.
Sole
Alone, single; used in contradistinction to joint or married. A sole tenant, therefore, is one who holds lands in his own right, without being joined with any other. A feme sole is a single woman; a sole corporation is one composed of only one natural person.
Reservation
Contracts. That part of a deed or other instrument which reserves a thing not in esse at the time of the grant, but newly created.
Sign
1) Contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words.2) Measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. 3) Merchant law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Possessed
This word is applied to the right and enjoyment of a termor or a person having a term, who is said to be possessed, and not seized.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
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Fides
Latin. Trust, confidence, reliance; credence, belief, faith.
Fides servanda
Faith must be kept; the good faith of a transaction will be given effect. A maxim with regard to sales of personalty. If there is no express warranty, general rules of implication should be adopted with this maxim in view. A warranty will be implied only when good faith requires it.
Fiducia
Civil law. A contract by which we sell a thing to some one, that is, transmit to him the property of the thing, with the solemn forms of emancipation, on condition that he will sell it back to us. This species of contract took place in the emancipation of children, in testaments, and in pledges.
Fiduciary
This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament.
Fiduciary duty
The acts necessary (usually of an authorized employee or agent) to carry out a responsibility to care for assets prudently.
Fief
Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.
Fieri
Latin. To be done; to be made. Compare Facere.
Fieri facias
A writ of fieri facias commands a sheriff to take and sell enough property from the person who lost the law suit, to pay the debt owed by the judgment.
Fieri feci
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or other proper officer, makes to certain writs, signifying, "I have caused to be made."
Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.
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