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freedom of assembly.See RIGHT OF ASSEMBLY.[Blacks Law 8th]

Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.A 1994 federal statute that provides for criminal sanctions, private civil causes of action, and civil action by the U.S. Attorney General against a person who uses force, threat of force, or physical obstruction to injure, intimidate, or interfere with a provider or patient of reproductive services or who…

freedom. 1. The state of being free or liberated. 2. A political right.[Blacks Law 8th]

freedman (freed-m<<schwa>>n).Hist. An emancipated slave.[Blacks Law 8th]

free city.Int’l law. A country-like political and territorial entity that, although independent in principle, does not have the full capacity to act according to general international law but is nevertheless a subject of international law.[Blacks Law 8th]

free chase.See CHASE.[Blacks Law 8th]

free chapel.Hist. Eccles. law. A church founded by the Crown (or by a person under royal grant) and not subject to the bishop’s jurisdiction. “[T]hose onely are Free-chappels, which are of the King’s Foundation, and by him exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Ordinary; but the King may licence a Subject to found such a…

free carrier.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 deliver them to the buyer’s chosen carrier at a named place. • The seller’s delivery is complete (and the…

free-bord.Hist. 1. A small strip of land (usu. 2 1/2 feet wide and lying just outside a fence) that the owner of the fenced property was allowed to claim and use. 2. The right of claiming that quantity of land. — Also spelled freebord; free bord; free-board. — Also termed francbordus.[Blacks Law 8th]

free bench.Hist. A widow’s (and occasionally a widower’s) interest in the deceased spouse’s estate. • Free bench gave the surviving spouse a half interest in the estate until death or remarriage. — Also termed francus bancus; frank bank; liber bancus. “The bench in question was, we may guess … a bench at the fireside. The…