Free Liver - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: free liverBon vivant
A good fellow a jovial companion a free liver...
Free liver
One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint one given to indulgence in eating and drinking...
Livered
Having such a liver used in composition as white livered...
Cod liver
The liver of the common cod and allied species...
Lily livered
White livered cowardly...
Liver colored
Having a color like liver dark reddish brown...
Liver grown
Having an enlarged liver...
Livering
A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork...
Milk livered
White livered cowardly timorous...
Free-board, or freebord
Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in width indifferent cases, running along the outside of the boundary fence. The right seems to be ofthe nature of a negative easement, its essence apparently consisting in the right of the owner of the park to have the strip kept free, open and unbuilt upon. Cowel (Law Dict.) has the following: 'Free-board, Francbordus, in some places they claim as a Free-bord, more or less ground beyond or without the fence. In Mon. Angl. 2 par. Fol. 241, it is said to contain two foot and a half.' He then quotes the passage from Dugdale, but inaccurately, the correct reading being as follows: Et totum boscum quod vocatur Brendewode, cum frankbordo duorum pedum et dimidium, per circuitum illius bosci, etc.; see Dugd. Mon., Edn. Caley Ellis & Bandinel, vol. vi. P. 375. Du Cange simply says, 'Francbordus A...
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