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Food and drug administration






Food and drug administration

FDA. A federal agency which sets safety and quality standards for food, drugs, cosmetics, and household substances.

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Federal
Government. This term is commonly used to express a league or compact between two or more states.

Quality
1) Persons. The state or condition of a person. 2) pleading. That which distinguishes one thing from another of the same kind.

Household
A family; also, pertaining or appropriate to a house or family; household furniture, goods, stuff. Persons who dwell together as a family.



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Food strike
In the US penitentiary slang, a group of prisoners that refuse to go to the dining hall to take food, or go there and refuse to eat anything. Unlike a Hunger Strike, prisoners still eat food that was bought or made by them in the units.



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Foetura
Civil law. The produce of animals, and the fruit of other property, which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property, by virtue of his right.

Foetus
Medical jurisprudence. The unborn child. The name of embryo is sometimes given to it; but, although the terms are occasionally used indiscriminately, the latter is more frequently employed to designate the state of an unborn child during the first three months after conception, and by some until quickening. A foetus is sometimes described by the uncouth phrase of infant in ventre sa mere.

Folcmote
The name of a court among the Saxons. It was literally an assembly of the people or inhabitants of the tithing or town, its jurisdiction extended over disputes between neighbors, as to matters of trespass in meadows, corn, and the like.

Folk-land
English law. Land formerly held at the pleasure of the lord, and resumed at his discretion. It was held in villenage.

Follow london clause
Is found often in marine insurance contracts. It is a clear indication that a contract is to be governed by English law. It is usually inserted where many persons are sharing in the risk.

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Foot
A measure of length, containing one-third of a yard, or twelve inches. Figuratively, it signifies the conclusion, the end; as, the foot of the fine, the foot of the account.

For cause
An employment arrangement where employees may only be terminated for a proven cause.

For that
Pleading. It is a maxim in law, regulating alike every form of action, that the plaintiff shall state his complaint in positive and direct terms, and not by way of recital. "For that " is a positive allegation; "For that whereas," in Latin "quod cum" is a recital.

Forbearance
Contracts. The act by which a creditor waits for the payment of the debt due him by the debtor, after it has become due.

Force majeure
A superior force. An event that no human foresight could anticipate or which if anticipated, is too strong to be considered an industrial strike which leads to loss of profits. Circumstances must be abnormal and unforeseeable, so that the consequences could not have been avoided through the exercise of all due care.

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