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FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. The name commonly given to the statate 29 Car. II., c. 3, entitled " An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries." Thi...

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 ...

FRANK, FREE. This word is used in composition, as frank-almoign, frank-marriage, frank-tenement, &c.FRANK-ALMOIGN, old English law. This is a Fren...

FRANC, com. law. The name of a French coin. Five franc pieces, when not of less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces tro...

FORUM. This term signifies jurisdiction, a court of justice, a tribunal.2. The French divide it into for exterieur, which is the authority which human...

FORISFAMILIATION, law of Scotl. By this is understood the act by which a father gives to a child his share of his legitime, and the latter renounces a...

FORFEITURE OF MARRIAGE, Old law. The name of a penalty formerly incurred by a ward in chivalry, when he or she married contrary to the wishes of his o...

FORFEITURE, punishment, torts. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of lands, tenements, or here...

FOREIGN NATION or STATE. A nation totally independent of the United States of America2. The constitution authorizes congress to regulate commerce with...

FOREIGN JUDGMENT, evidence, remedies. A judgment rendered in a foreign state.2. In Louisiana it has been decided that a judgment rendered by a Spanish...