The thread or middle of the road. 2. Where a law requires travelers meeting each other on, a road to drive their carriages to the right of the middle of the road, the parties are bound to keep ou their side of the worked part of the road, although the whole of the smooth or most travelled path may be upon one side of the filum viae. … [Read more...]

In English law. This was originally a tax or tribute, levied at intervals by act of parliament, consisting of one fifteenth of all the movable property of the subject or personalty in every city, township, and borough. Under Edward III., the taxable property was assessed, and the value of its fifteenth part (then about £29,000) was recorded in the exchequer, whence the tax, … [Read more...]

In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground: a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 4b: Shep. Touch. 95. … [Read more...]

French meaning an end or limit; a limitation or period of limitation. … [Read more...]

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution which was added to the Bill of Rights and provides that (1) no person will be required to answer to a crime without a grand jury indictment; (2) one cannot be tried for the same crime twice as there is no double jeopardy; (3) no one will be required to testify against him or her self; (4) no one can be deprived of their life, liberty or … [Read more...]