Law Dictionary Definitions

field-of-use restriction.Intellectual property. A license provision restricting the licensee’s use of the licensed property to a defined product or service market or to a designated geographical area.[Blacks Law 8th]

field of search.See CLASSIFICATION OF PATENTS(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

field of invention.See CLASSIFICATION OF PATENTS(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

field notes.The notes in a surveyor’s field book.[Blacks Law 8th]

Field Code.The New York Code of Procedure of 1848, which was the first comprehensive Anglo-American code of civil procedure and served as a model for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. • It was drafted by David Dudley Field (1805–1894), a major law-reformer. See code pleading under PLEADING (2).[Blacks Law 8th]

field book.A log or book containing a surveyor’s notes that are made on-site and that describe by course and distance the running of the property lines and the establishment of the corners of a parcel of land.[Blacks Law 8th]

field audit.See AUDIT.[Blacks Law 8th]

fief-tenant.Hist. The holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder or freeholder.[Blacks Law 8th]

fief d’haubert.See feudum militare under FEUDUM.[Blacks Law 8th]

fief d’hauberk (feef doh-bairk). See feudum militare under FEUDUM.[Blacks Law 8th]