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                  Fa Fe Fi Fo Fr Fu
                  Fre Fru

                  free alms

                  one of the four conditions, or tenures, in Scots law on which lands could be granted by charter. In the Middle Ages, it was a grant of property made to a monastery or church in return for prayers for the granter’s soul and those of his family; later, as the mortification.