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A legal doctrine (as a result of case law) which prevents a person injured during military service from suing the federal government (for example, picking up a part of an enemy vessel and discovering later it was radioactive.) … [Read more...] about FERES DOCTRINE

In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given or a feoffment made. … [Read more...] about FEOFFATUS

In old English law. A weekday; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell Du Cange; Spelman. … [Read more...] about FERIA

He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt 5 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20. Feoffee to uses. A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called "cestui que use." … [Read more...] about FEOFFEE

In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during which free born Romans suspended their political transactions and their lawsuits, and during which slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor, all ferics were thus dies nefasti. All fericB were divided into two classes,"feria publicw" and "ferice privatas," The latter were only observed by single families or … [Read more...] about FERIAE