Fiddle string

The string of a fiddle fastened at the extremities, and raised towards one end on the bridge. Fid'dletown, in California, the former name of OLETA, a post-village of Amador co. The vicinity abounds in gold mines. Fid'dling, p . a . Playing on a fiddle; trifling. Fiddling, n. Act or manner of playing on the violin; as, "I do not like his fiddling ." Fide'i commis's um. [Lat., committed to the trust.] (Civil Law .) Something given, usually by will, to one in confidence that he will convey it or dispose of it for the good of another. The obligation was not created by words legally binding, but by words of request: as, volo , I wish, peto , I ask; and hence, originally there was no legal means of enforcing its fulfilment till the time of August us, when a prætor was appointed whose sole busine it was to see to the fidei commi a. The person intrusted with the property was called fiduciarius , and the one to whom it was intended to be conveyed, fidei commi ar i us. Fidei commi a were either particular or universal, the former being the bequest of a particular subject, the latter of the whole estate. They seem to have been introduced in order to evade some legal restriction, and to give the inheritance or a legacy to a person who was either incapacitated from taking it directly, or who could not take as much as the donor wished to give. In some parts of Europe, as in Germany and Holland, the F. C. forms an important feature in the conveyance of heritable property, resembling the laws of entail, q. v. - A person receiving the use of certain lands during his life, on condition of transmitting them unimpaired, in a certain line, after his death. Fi'de-jus/sion. [Lat. fideju io .) ( Civil Law .) A suretyship, or act by which any one, called Fide - jus sor, or guarantor , engages himself for the debt of another, promising to pay in case the original debtor should make default.