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Fratricide
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FratricideCriminal law. He who kills his brother or sister. The crime of such a person is also called fratricide
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Brother
Domestic relat. He who is born from the same father and mother with another, or from one of them only.
Sister
A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. In the first case she is called sister, simply; in the second, half sister.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Fratricide
Criminal law. He who kills his brother or sister. The crime of such a person is also called fratricide
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Frater
Brother.
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Frank-almoign
Old English law. This is a French law word, signifying free-alms.
Frank-marriage
English law. It takes place, according to Blackstone, when lands are given by one man to another, together with a wife who is daughter or kinswoman of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage. By this gift, though nothing but, the word frank-marriage is expressed, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten that is, they are tenants in special tail. It is called frank or free marriage, because the donees are liable to no service but fealty. This is now obsolete, even in England.
Franktenement
A freehold.
Frank-tenement
Estates. Same as freehold or liberum tenementum.
Frater
Brother.
Fratricide
Fraud
Contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an agreement contrary to his interest. The fraud may consist either, first, in the misrepresentation, or, secondly, in the concealment of a material fact. Fraud, force and vexation, are odious in law.
Fraud scenarios
A method of developing mental models of possible Frauds. "Thinking like a crook."
Frauds, statute of
The name commonly given to the statate, entitled " An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries." This statute has been re-enacted in most. of the states of the Union, generally with omissions, amendments, or alterations. When the words of the statute have been used, the construction put upon them has also been adopted. Most of the acts of the different states will be found in Anthon's Appendix to Shep. Touchst.
Fraudster
One who commits the Fraud.
Fraudulent conveyance
A conveyance of property without any consideration of value, for the purpose of delaying or bindering creditors. These are declared void by the statutes, the principles of which have been adopted in perhaps all the states of the American Union.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
Brother
Domestic relat. He who is born from the same father and mother with another, or from one of them only.
Sister
A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. In the first case she is called sister, simply; in the second, half sister.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Fratricide
Criminal law. He who kills his brother or sister. The crime of such a person is also called fratricide
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Frater
Brother.
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Frank-almoign
Old English law. This is a French law word, signifying free-alms.
Frank-marriage
English law. It takes place, according to Blackstone, when lands are given by one man to another, together with a wife who is daughter or kinswoman of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage. By this gift, though nothing but, the word frank-marriage is expressed, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten that is, they are tenants in special tail. It is called frank or free marriage, because the donees are liable to no service but fealty. This is now obsolete, even in England.
Franktenement
A freehold.
Frank-tenement
Estates. Same as freehold or liberum tenementum.
Frater
Brother.
Fratricide
Fraud
Contracts, torts. Any trick or artifice employed by one person to induce another to fall into an error, or to detain him in it, so that he may make an agreement contrary to his interest. The fraud may consist either, first, in the misrepresentation, or, secondly, in the concealment of a material fact. Fraud, force and vexation, are odious in law.
Fraud scenarios
A method of developing mental models of possible Frauds. "Thinking like a crook."
Frauds, statute of
The name commonly given to the statate, entitled " An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries." This statute has been re-enacted in most. of the states of the Union, generally with omissions, amendments, or alterations. When the words of the statute have been used, the construction put upon them has also been adopted. Most of the acts of the different states will be found in Anthon's Appendix to Shep. Touchst.
Fraudster
One who commits the Fraud.
Fraudulent conveyance
A conveyance of property without any consideration of value, for the purpose of delaying or bindering creditors. These are declared void by the statutes, the principles of which have been adopted in perhaps all the states of the American Union.
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