Usury; the gain of interest; the practice of increasing money by lending. … [Read more...] about FENERATION
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FELONICE
Feloniously. Anciently an indispensable word in indictments for felony, and classed by Lord Coke among those voces artis (words of art) which cannot be expressed by any periphrasis or circumlocution. 4 Coke, 39; Co. Litt 391a; 4 Bl. Comm. 307. … [Read more...] about FELONICE
FENGELD
In Saxon law. A tax or imposition, exacted for the repelling of enemies. … [Read more...] about FENGELD
FEE FARM RENT
contracts, Eng. law. When the lord, upon the creation of a tenancy, reserves to himself and his heirs, either the rent for which it was before let to farm, or at least one-fourth part of that farm rent, it is called a fee farm rent, because a farm rent is reserved upon a grant in fee. 2 Inst. 44. … [Read more...] about FEE FARM RENT
FEIGNED ACTION
practice. An action brought on a pretended right, when the plaintiff has no true cause of action, for some illegal purpose. In a feigned action the words of the writ are true; it differs from false action, in which case the words of the writ are false. … [Read more...] about FEIGNED ACTION