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first-filed rule.See FIRST-TO-FILE RULE.[Blacks Law 8th]

first devisee.See DEVISEE.[Blacks Law 8th]

first impression, case of.See CASE.[Blacks Law 8th]

firsthand knowledge.See personal knowledge under KNOWLEDGE.[Blacks Law 8th]

first fruits. 1.Hist. One year’s profits from the land of a tenant in capite, payable to the Crown after the tenant’s death. — Also termed primer seisin. 2.Hist. Eccles. law. The first year’s whole profits of a clergyman’s benefice, paid by the incumbent to the Pope, or (after the break with Rome) to the Crown.…

first-filing rule.See FIRST-TO-FILE RULE.[Blacks Law 8th]

first-filed rule.See FIRST-TO-FILE RULE.[Blacks Law 8th]

first-degree sexual conduct.Sexual battery that involves an aggravating factor, as when the perpetrator commits the offense against a minor or when the perpetrator commits the offense in the course of committing another crime, such as a burglary. — Also termed criminal sexual conduct in the first degree.[Blacks Law 8th]

first-degree principal.See principal in the first degree under PRINCIPAL(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

first-degree murder.See MURDER.[Blacks Law 8th]