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Fifth Amendment, plead the.See TAKE THE FIFTH.[Blacks Law 8th]

Fifth Amendment.The constitutional amendment, ratified with the Bill of Rights in 1791, providing that a person cannot be (1) required to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous offense unless a grand jury issues an indictment or presentment, (2) subjected to double jeopardy, (3) compelled to engage in self-incrimination on a criminal matter, (4) deprived…

Fifteenth Amendment.The constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, guaranteeing all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or prior condition of servitude. [Cases: Constitutional Law 82(8).C.J.S. Constitutional Law §§ 461–462, 612, 614–619, 624–626.][Blacks Law 8th]

fifteenth.Hist. A tax of one-fifteenth of all the personal property of every subject. • The tax was levied at intervals by act of Parliament. Under Edward III, the value of the fifteenth was assessed and fixed at a specific sum and did not increase as the wealth of the kingdom increased — thus the tax…

FIFRA.abbr.Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. 7 USCA §§ 136–136y.[Blacks Law 8th]

FIFO (fI-foh).abbr.FIRST-IN, FIRST-OUT.[Blacks Law 8th]

fa.(sometimes cap.) abbr.FIERI FACIAS.[Blacks Law 8th]

fieri feci (fI-<<schwa>>-rIfee-sI). [Latin “I have caused to be made”] Hist. A sheriff’s return on a fieri facias where the sheriff has collected, in whole or in part, the sum to be levied on. • The return is usu. expressed by the word “satisfied.”[Blacks Law 8th]

fieri facias (fI-<<schwa>>-rIfay-shee-<<schwa>>s). [Latin “that you cause to be done”] A writ of execution that directs a marshal or sheriff to seize and sell a defendant’s property to satisfy a money judgment. — Abbr. fi. fa.; Fi. Fa. Cf. LEVARI FACIAS. [Cases: Execution 1, 15. C.J.S. Executions §§ 2, 15, 18.] “It receives its name…

fieri (fI-<<schwa>>-rI). [Latin] To be made; to be done. • Fieri usu. appears as part of the phrase in fieri. See IN FIERI.[Blacks Law 8th]