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Eye for an eye
Eye for an eye (lex talionis) is the law of retaliation from Hammurabi's Code, the Hebrew Bible, and Roman law, functioning as a proportional ceiling on punishment that later evolved into monetary compensation and modern sentencing proportionality.
F. Dennis Saylor IV
F. Dennis Saylor IV (born 1955) is an American jurist who has served as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 2004 and was its chief judge from 2020 to 2025.
F. Lee Bailey
F. Lee Bailey (Francis Lee Bailey Jr., 1933-2021) was an American criminal defense lawyer famous for the Sam Sheppard, Boston Strangler, Patty Hearst, and O.J. Simpson cases, later disbarred in Florida and Massachusetts for misappropriating client funds.
Fabian von Schlabrendorff
Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907–1980), German lawyer, resistance fighter, and Federal Constitutional Court judge; planted the failed Cointreau-bottle bomb on Hitler's plane in March 1943 as Tresckow's adjutant.
Fabio Ochoa Vásquez
Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, born 1957, founding member with his brothers of Colombia's Medellín Cartel under Pablo Escobar; surrendered in 1990, extradited to the US in 2001 in Operation Millennium, sentenced in 2003 to 30 years, and deported home in December 2024.
Fagan Commission
The Fagan Commission, formally the Native Laws Commission of Enquiry, was a 1946 South African inquiry chaired by Judge Henry Fagan into African urbanization and pass laws.
Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1969] 1 QB 439, also cited as Fagan v MPC, is a 1968 English Divisional Court case holding that a driver who accidentally parked on a policeman's foot and refused to move committed assault, establishing the continuing act doctrine for coincidence of actus reus and mens rea.
Failure of consideration
Failure of consideration, or failure of basis, is a legal concept in contract law where a valid contract becomes unenforceable because the consideration is no longer valuable.
Fair Credit Reporting Act
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. 1681-1681x, is the 1970 U.S. federal law regulating consumer reporting agencies, dispute reinvestigation, permissible report uses, and furnishers, administered by the CFPB through Regulation V.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692–1692p, is the main US federal law restricting third-party debt collectors, enacted in 1977, covering personal, family, and household debts and enforced by the FTC and CFPB through Regulation F.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) is the U.S. federal wage-and-hour law establishing minimum wage, overtime after 40 hours, recordkeeping, and child labor standards, enforced by the Wage and Hour Division.
Fair Sentencing Act
Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-220), U.S. law signed August 3, 2010 that cut the crack-to-powder cocaine ratio from 100:1 to 18:1, raised crack quantity thresholds, and ended mandatory minimums for simple possession; made retroactive by the 2018 First Step Act.
Fair use
Fair use is a U.S. copyright doctrine under 17 U.S.C. §107 permitting unlicensed use of copyrighted works, weighed through four statutory factors; also distinguished from fair dealing and applied in AI training litigation.
Faith Jenkins
Faith Jenkins (Faith Jenkins Lattimore), American attorney, former Manhattan prosecutor, and TV judge known for Judge Faith (2014–2018), Divorce Court (2020–2022), and Oxygen's Killer Relationship; Miss Louisiana 2000 and Miss America 2001 first runner-up.
False accusation
False accusation: knowingly or falsely alleging another committed an offense, charged as perverting the course of justice, wasting police time, or statutory false accusation offenses; a contributing factor in wrongful convictions alongside false confessions and mistaken identifications.
False accusation of rape
False accusation of rape: a rape claim determined false. Shaped by Hale's 17th-century warning, colonial forensic suspicion, and rape-myth research; rigorous studies place confirmed false reports near 2–10%.
False Claims Act of 1863
Signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 2, 1863, the False Claims Act of 1863, or Lincoln's Law, is a U.S. federal statute against contractor fraud.
False imprisonment
False imprisonment, also known as unlawful detention or wrongful confinement, is the intentional confinement of a person without consent or legal authority, recognized as both a crime and a tort.
Familicide
Familicide, or family annihilation, is the killing of multiple family members, typically an intimate partner and one or more children, by a perpetrator who is overwhelmingly male and dies by suicide in about half of cases; roughly 23 US incidents occur yearly.
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
The Family and Medical Leave Act is a U.S. law that provides up to 12 workweeks of job-protected leave to employees at covered private-sector employers and public agencies.
Family Code of Russia
The Family Code of Russia, adopted as Law No. 223-FZ in December 1995, is the federal statute governing marriage, divorce, property, alimony, and child placement, in force since 1996.
Family Code of Ukraine (Сімейний кодекс України)
The Family Code of Ukraine (Сімейний кодекс України) is the statute, adopted in January 2002, that governs marriage, divorce, parental rights, adoption, and alimony in Ukraine.
Family court
Family court: specialized courts hearing divorce, custody, support, adoption, and domestic violence matters. Origins in US juvenile (Chicago 1899) and domestic relations courts (1910); models include integrated family courts and England and Wales's FPR 2010 system.
Family Court (England and Wales)
The Family Court is the single court that hears family proceedings in England and Wales, created on 22 April 2014 under the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
Family Court of Australia
Family Court of Australia: federal superior court established 1975 for complex family law trials and appeals; since 1 September 2021 continued as Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) with 35 specialist judges.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, also called the Buckley Amendment, is the 1974 U.S. federal law (20 U.S.C. 1232g) giving parents and eligible students rights to inspect, amend, and control disclosure of education records, enforced by loss of federal funding.
Family Law Act (Ontario)
Family Law Act (Ontario), R.S.O. 1990, c. F.3, is the provincial statute governing family property equalization, the matrimonial home, support obligations, and domestic contracts for married and some common-law couples in Ontario, enacted in 1986.
Family Law Act 1975
The Family Law Act 1975 is an Australian law governing divorce and family disputes, known for introducing no-fault divorce and creating the Family Court of Australia.
Family Law Act 1996
Family Law Act 1996 (1996 c. 27), UK statute for England and Wales. Part IV supplies non-molestation orders, occupation orders and home rights against domestic violence; Part 4A adds forced marriage protection orders; Part II divorce provisions were never brought into force.
Family law in England and Wales
Family law in England and Wales governs divorce, children, and domestic-abuse remedies; since 6 April 2022 its sole divorce ground is irretrievable breakdown on a no-fault basis.