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free socage.See SOCAGE.[Blacks Law 8th]

free seas.See SEA.[Blacks Law 8th]

free rider.One who obtains an economic benefit at another’s expense without contributing to — Also spelled freerider.[Blacks Law 8th]

free ride.A benefit obtained without paying a fair price. • For example, a competitor who used aerial photographs of a plant-construction site to discover secret manufacturing techniques was judicially criticized for getting a free ride, in contrast to others who might spend time and effort legally reverse-engineering the same techniques.[Blacks Law 8th]

free port.See PORT.[Blacks Law 8th]

free on board.A mercantile-contract term allocating the rights and duties of the buyer and the seller of goods with respect to delivery, payment, and risk of loss, whereby the seller must clear the goods for export, and the buyer must arrange for transportation. • The seller’s delivery is complete (and the risk of loss passes…

free of all average.Maritime law. Insurance that covers a total loss only. — Abbr. FAA.[Blacks Law 8th]

free market.See open market under MARKET.[Blacks Law 8th]

Freeman–Walter–Abele test.Patents. An outmoded two-step judicial test for determining whether a claimed invention is an unpatentable mathematical algorithm. • The test looks first to whether an algorithm is explicit or inherent in the claim, and second to whether a patent would wholly preempt others from using the algorithm. In re Freeman, 573 F.2d 1237 (CCPA…

freeman. 1. A person who possesses and enjoys all the civil and political rights belonging to the people under a free government. 2. A person who is not a slave. 3.Hist. A member of a municipal corporation (a city or borough) who possesses full civic rights, esp. the right to vote. 4.Hist. A freeholder. Cf.…