A day of fasting and penitence, or of mortification by religious abstinence. See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 100, et seq. … [Read more...] about FAST-DAY
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FAUBOURG
In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town adjoining the principal city; a suburb. See City Council of Lafayette v. Holland, 18 La. 286. … [Read more...] about FAUBOURG
FEAL AND DIVOT
A right in Scotland, similar to the right of turbary in England, for fuel, etc. … [Read more...] about FEAL AND DIVOT
FASTERMANS, OR FASTING-MEN
Men in repute and substance; pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon polity, were fast bound to answer for each others peaceable behavior. Enc. Lond. … [Read more...] about FASTERMANS, OR FASTING-MEN
FAUCES TERRAE
(Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclosing a portion or arm of the sea within them. 1 Kent, Comm. 367, and note; Hale, De Jure Mar. 10; The Harriet, 1 Story, 251, 259, Fed. Cas. No. 6,099. … [Read more...] about FAUCES TERRAE