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FORMED DESIGN

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In criminal law, and particularly with reference to homicide, this term means a deliberate and fixed intention to kill, whether directed against a particular person or not. Mitchell v. State, '00 Ala. 33; Wilson v. State, 128 Ala. 17, 29 South. 569; Ake v. State, 30 Tex. 473. … [Read more...]

FORPRISE

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An exception; reservation,; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term of frequent use in leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount. In another sense, the word is taken for any exaction. … [Read more...]

FORLER-LAND

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Land In the diocese of Hereford, which had a peculiar custom attached to it but which has been long since disused, although the name is retained. But Surv. 56. … [Read more...]

FORIS

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Lat. Abroad; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic. … [Read more...]

FORM

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practice. The model of an instrument or legal-proceeding, containing the substance and the principal terms, to be used in accordance with the laws; or, it is the act of pursuing, in legal proceedings, and in the construction of legal instruments, the order required by law. Form is usually put in contradistinction to substance. For example, by the operation of the statute of 27 … [Read more...]

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