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In Scotch law. He that has the fee or feu. The proprietor is termed "fiar," in contradistinction to the life renter. 1 Karnes, Eq. Pref. One whose property is charged with a life rent. … [Read more...] about FIAR

A term derived from the Latin "fidei-commissarius" and occasionally used by writers on equity jurisprudence as a substitute for the law French term "cestui que trust" as being more elegant and euphonious. See Brown v. Brown, 83 Hun, 160, 31 N. Y. Supp. 650. … [Read more...] about FIDE-COMMISSARY

The value of grain In the different counties of Scotland, fixed yearly by the respective sheriffs, in the month of February with the assistance of juries. These regulate the prices of grain stipulated to be sold at the flar prices, or when no price bas been stipulated. Ersk. 1, 4, 6. … [Read more...] about FIARS PRICES

In the civil law this term corresponds nearly to our "cestui que trust." It designates a person who has the real or beneficial interest in an estate or fund, the title or administration of which is temporarily confided to another. See Story, Eq. Jur. … [Read more...] about FIDEI-COMMISSARIUS

(Latin: "Let it be done.") In English practice. A short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. One of the proceedings in the English bankrupt practice, being a power, signed by the lord chancellor, addressed to the court of bankruptcy, authorizing the petitioning … [Read more...] about FIAT