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In Roman law. A guarantor; one who becomes responsible for the payment of another's debt by a stipulation which binds him to discharge it if the principal debtor fails to do so.The sureties taken on the arrest of a defendant in the court of admiralty, were formerly denominated "fide jussors." 8 Bl. Comm. 108. … [Read more...] about FIDE-JUSSOR

An assumption or supposition of law that something which is or may be false is true, or that a state of facts exists which has never really taken place. A fiction is a rule of law which assumes as true, and will not allow to be disproved, something which is false, but not impossible. Best, Ev. 419. These assumptions are of an innocent or even beneficial character, and are … [Read more...] about FICTION

Lat. Fealty, (q. v.) Fidolitas. Do nullo tenemento, quod tenetur ad terminum, fit homagiii fit tunes indo fidolitatis saoramentum. Co. Litt 676. Fealty. For no tenement which is held for a term is there the oath of homage, but there is the oath of fealty. … [Read more...] about FIDELITAS

The assumption that a certain thing is true, and which gives to a person or thing, a quality which is not natural to it, and establishes, consequently, a certain disposition, which, without the fiction, would be repugnant to reason and to truth. It is an order of things which does not exist, but which the law prescribe; or authorizes it differs from presumption, because it … [Read more...] about FICTION OF LAW

See INSURANCE. … [Read more...] about FIDELITY INSURANCE