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the owner prefers recovering the specific property to damages for it conversion,
and no regard is had to the manner in which the defendant acquired the
possession. (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed., Henry Campbell Black, p. 450, West
Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Doom

Dome; sentence; judgment. An oath. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell
Black, 6th ed.,p. 484, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Ell

1: a measure of length varying in different countries. The English ell = 45 in;
the Scotch = 37.2, the Flemish = 27 in., Now only Hist, or with reference to
foreign countries, the English measure being obsolete. (The Oxford English
Dictionary, Vol. V, E. p. 143, Drandva - Follis, Oxford at Clarendon Press,
1961)

Essoyn

Essoin. In old English law, an excuse for not appearing in court at the
return of the process. Presentation of such excuse. Essoin was not now allowed
at all in personal actions. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6th ed
p. 546, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Fact

A thing done; an action performed or an incident transpiring; an event or
circumstance; an actual occurrence; an actual happening in time or space or an
event mental or physical; that which has taken place. A fact is either a state of
things, that is, an existence, or a motion, that is, an event. The quality of being
actual; actual existence or occurrence.
Fact and law distinguished. "Fact" is very frequently used in opposition or
contrast to "law". Thus, questions of fact are for the jury; questions of law for the
court. E.g. fraud in fact consists in an actual intention to defraud, carried into
effect; while fraud imputed by law arises from the person's conduct in its
necessary relations and consequences. A "fact", as distinguished from the "law",
may be taken as that out of which the point of law arises, that which is asserted to
be or not to be, and is to be presumed or proved to be or not to be for the purpose
of applying or refusing to apply a rule of law. Law is a principle; fact is an event.
Law is conceived; fact is actual. Law is a rule of duty; fact is that which has been
according to or in contravention of the rule. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry
Campbell Black, 6th ed, p. 591, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Fieri Facias

Lat. Means that you "cause (it) to be done" Judicial writ directing sheriff to
satisfy a judgment from the debtor's property. In its original form, the writ
directed the seizure and sale of goods and chattels only, but eventually was
enlarged to permit levy on real property, too; largely synonymously with modern
writ of execution (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6th ed,
p. 627, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, 1967)



 
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