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Felon :: Felon (a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.

Stealing :: Stealing (n.) The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

Hamesucken :: Hamesucken (n.) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.

Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..

Felonous :: Felonous (a.) Wicked; felonious.

Asportation :: Asportation (n.) The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

Felony :: Felony (n.) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt..

Clergyable :: Clergyable (a.) Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony..

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..

Felonies :: Felonies (pl. ) of Felon.

Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another..

Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..

Waif :: Waif (n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice..

To Compound A Felony :: To compound a felony () See under Compound, v. t..

Runround :: Runround (n.) A felon or whitlow.

Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..

Fellon :: Fellon (n.) Variant of Felon.

Estovers :: Estovers (n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate..

Felon :: Felon (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint..

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