Law Dictionary Definitions

free agency,n. A professional athlete’s ability to negotiate an employment contract with any team in the league, rather than being confined to the league’s collective system. • Free agency is usu. granted to veteran players who have been in the league for a certain number of years. Cf. RESERVE CLAUSE . — free agent,n[Blacks Law…

free,adj.1. Having legal and political rights; enjoying political and civil liberty <a free citizen> <a free populace>.2. Not subject to the constraint or domination of another; enjoying personal freedom; emancipated <a free person>.3. Characterized by choice, rather than by compulsion or constraint <free will>.4. Unburdened <the land was free of any encumbrances>.5. Not confined by…

Freddie Mac.See FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION.[Blacks Law 8th]

FRE.abbr.FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE.[Blacks Law 8th]

F.R.D.abbr.Federal Rules Decisions; a series of reported federal court decisions (beginning in 1938) that construe or apply the Federal Rules of Civil, Criminal, or Appellate Procedure, or the Federal Rules of Evidence. • Also included are rule changes, ceremonial proceedings of federal courts, and articles on federal-court practice and procedure. — Often written FRD.[Blacks Law…

FRCP.abbr.FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE[Blacks Law 8th]

FRCP.abbr.FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.[Blacks Law 8th]

FRB.abbr.FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS.[Blacks Law 8th]

fray. See AFFRAY.[Blacks Law 8th]

fraus legis (fraws lee-jis). [Latin “fraud on the law”] Roman law. Evasion of the law; specif., doing something that is not expressly forbidden by statute, but that the law does not want done.[Blacks Law 8th]