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Finance Department … [Read more...] about FDP

To accelerate or prioritize, usually a task prioritized so as to finish early. … [Read more...] about FAST TRACKING

An idiot or fool. Bract. fol. 420b. Foolish; absurd; indiscreet; or ill considered. Fatuum judicium, a foolish judgment or verdict. Applied to the verdict of a jury which, though false, was not criminally so, or did not amount to perjury. Bract fol. 289. Fatuus, upud juriconsultos nostros, accipitur pro non compos mentis; et fatuus dicitur, qui omnino desipit. 4 Coke, 128. … [Read more...] about FATUUS

Faithful. Tenants by knight service swore to their lords to be feal and leal; i.e., faithful and loyal. … [Read more...] about FEAL

In Roman law. A household; a family. On the composition of the Roman family, see AGNATI; COGNATI; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law, s 144. Family right; the right or status of being the head of a family, or of exercising the patria potestas over others. This could belong only to a Roman citizen who was a "man in his own right," (homo sui juris.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, s … [Read more...] about FAMILIA