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Fleet
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FleetPunishment. English law. Saxon fleot. A place of running water, where the tide or float comes up. A prison in London, so called from a river or ditch which was formerly there, on the side of which it stood.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Tide
The ebb and flow of the sea.
Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
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.
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Flag shopping
The choosing of a particular jurisdiction by a shipowner in which to register his ship because it favours the shipowner in questions of crew pay, crew comfort and safety, taxes and ship safety. Flag shopping in the sixties was deemed an avoidance of the law. Today it is considered to be an evasion of the law, because the flag state has neither control over, nor a genuine link with, the shipowner.
Flagrans crimen
This, among the Romans, signified. that a crime was then or had just been committed for example, when a crime has just been committed and the corpus delictum is publicly exposed; or if a mob take place; or if a house be feloniously burned, these are severally flagrans cri men.
Flagrante bello
War raging: during hostilities.
Flagrante crimine or delicto
While the offense is being perpetrated: in the very act.
Flagrante delicto
The act of committing a crime; when a person is arrested flagrante delicto, the only evidence required to convict him, is to prove that fact.
Fleet
Fleta
The title of an ancient law book, supposed to have been written by a judge who was confined in the Fleet prison. It is written in Latin, and is divided into six books.
Flight
Criminal law. The evading the course of justice, by a man's voluntarily withdrawing himself.
Floating charge
A mortgage, debenture or other security documentation, is likely to create charges over particular assets as security for borrowings or other indebtedness. There are essentially two types of charge, floating and fixed. A floating charge is appropriate to assets and material which is subject to change on a day to day basis, such as stock. Individual items move into and out of the charge as they are bought and sold in the ordinary course of events. The floating charge crystallises if there is a default or similar event. At that stage the floating charge is converted to a fixed charge over the assets which it covers at that time. A floating charge is not as effective as a fixed charge but is more flexible.
Floating law clause
A clause in a contract which permits one party to the contract to choose the applicable law, after a predetermined event has occurred. Such clauses have been criticized for lending themselves to evasion of the law.
Floodgates
It was feared by Cardozo, C.J. that to grant damages for economic loss (supra) would open the floodgates to "liability in an indeterminate amount for an indeterminate time, to an indeterminate class".
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Tide
The ebb and flow of the sea.
Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
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.
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Flag shopping
The choosing of a particular jurisdiction by a shipowner in which to register his ship because it favours the shipowner in questions of crew pay, crew comfort and safety, taxes and ship safety. Flag shopping in the sixties was deemed an avoidance of the law. Today it is considered to be an evasion of the law, because the flag state has neither control over, nor a genuine link with, the shipowner.
Flagrans crimen
This, among the Romans, signified. that a crime was then or had just been committed for example, when a crime has just been committed and the corpus delictum is publicly exposed; or if a mob take place; or if a house be feloniously burned, these are severally flagrans cri men.
Flagrante bello
War raging: during hostilities.
Flagrante crimine or delicto
While the offense is being perpetrated: in the very act.
Flagrante delicto
The act of committing a crime; when a person is arrested flagrante delicto, the only evidence required to convict him, is to prove that fact.
Fleet
Fleta
The title of an ancient law book, supposed to have been written by a judge who was confined in the Fleet prison. It is written in Latin, and is divided into six books.
Flight
Criminal law. The evading the course of justice, by a man's voluntarily withdrawing himself.
Floating charge
A mortgage, debenture or other security documentation, is likely to create charges over particular assets as security for borrowings or other indebtedness. There are essentially two types of charge, floating and fixed. A floating charge is appropriate to assets and material which is subject to change on a day to day basis, such as stock. Individual items move into and out of the charge as they are bought and sold in the ordinary course of events. The floating charge crystallises if there is a default or similar event. At that stage the floating charge is converted to a fixed charge over the assets which it covers at that time. A floating charge is not as effective as a fixed charge but is more flexible.
Floating law clause
A clause in a contract which permits one party to the contract to choose the applicable law, after a predetermined event has occurred. Such clauses have been criticized for lending themselves to evasion of the law.
Floodgates
It was feared by Cardozo, C.J. that to grant damages for economic loss (supra) would open the floodgates to "liability in an indeterminate amount for an indeterminate time, to an indeterminate class".
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