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Executed fine
Executed fine, the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il a de son done; or a fine upon acknowledgment of the right of the cognizee, as that which he has of the gift of...
False imprisonment
False imprisonment, restraining personal liberty without lawful authority, for which offence the law has not only decreed a punishment as a public crime, but has also given a private reparation to the party as well by...
Filiolus
Filiolus, a little son; a godson, Jac. Law Dict.
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Filius mulieratus
Filius mulieratus, the eldest legitimate son of a woman who was illicitly connected with his father before marriage.
Filius populi
Filius populi, a son of the people, a natural child. See Cowel, Law Dict., voce Mulier.
Foster child
Foster child, 'Foster Child' need not be the real legitimate child of the person who brings him up. He is essentially the child of another person but is nursed, reared and brought up by another person...
Collatio bonorum
Collatio bonorum (a contribution of goods). Where a portion or money, advanced by the father to a son or daughter, is brought into hotchpot (q.v.), in order to have an equal distributory share of his personal...
Aids
Aids [fr. aides, Fr.; auxlia, Lat.], originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord in times of distress, but at length the lords claimed them as of right. They were principally three: (1) To...
Cler. fil
Cler. fil. (clerici filius), the son of a clergyman.
Accolade
Accolade [fr. accoler, Fr., Collum amplecti, Lat.], a ceremony anciently used in knighthood, by the king putting his hand upon the knight's neck, Cowel. Greg. De Tours writes, that the kings of France, in conferring the...
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