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flexdollars. Money that an employer pays an employee, who can apply it to a choice of employee benefits.[Blacks Law 8th]

FLETC.abbr.FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER.[Blacks Law 8th]

Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani (flee-t<<schwa>> syoo kom-<<schwa>>n-tair-ee-<<schwa>>s joor-is ang-gl<<schwa>>-kay-nI).Hist. The title of an ancient treatise on English law, composed in the 13th century and first printed in 1647. • The work is largely derivative, being based on Bracton’s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus. The unknown author may have been a judge or lawyer who wrote…

flemeswite (fleemz-wIt).Hist. The privilege to possess, or the actual possession of, the goods and fines of a fleme (a fugitive).[Blacks Law 8th]

flemene frit (flee-m<<schwa>>n frit).Hist. The harboring or aiding of a fleme (a fugitive). — Also termed and spelled flemenes frinthe; flemensfirth; flyman frynth; flymena frynthe.[Blacks Law 8th]

fleme (fleem).Hist. An outlaw; a fugitive bondman or villein. — Also spelled flem. — Also termed flyma.[Blacks Law 8th]

Fleet Prison.Hist. A large London jail best known for holding debtors and bankrupts in the 18th and 19th centuries. • Formerly standing beside the Fleet River, it was opened in 1197 and operated almost continuously until it was closed and demolished in 1846.[Blacks Law 8th]

Fleet marriage.See MARRIAGE(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

fleet insurance.See INSURANCE.[Blacks Law 8th]

flee from justice.See FLIGHT.[Blacks Law 8th]