FEL 
able powers of annoyance, and fly from the 
sight of man with the greatest rapidity and 
alarm, But between man and the feline 
tribe a contest for dominion is kept up 
over extensive regions of the globe, many 
of them highly ornamented and productive, 
and calculated to become the abodes of 
harmony and civilization. 
FELLOWSHIP, or Company, in arith- 
metic, is when two or more join their stocks 
and trade together, dividing their gain or 
loss proportionably. 
Fellowship is either with or without time. 
Questions without time, or in the single 
rule of fellowship, as it is frequently called, 
are wrought by the following proportion. 
As the whole stock to the whole gain or 
loss, so is each man’s particular stock to his 
particular share of gain or loss. 
Suppose three partners, A, B, and C, 
make a joint stock in this, manner : A puts 
in 24k; B, 82k ; and C, 40k; in all 96k; 
with which they trade, and gain 12k; re- 
quired each man’s true share of that gain ? 
The first operation for A’s part of the gain 
will stand thus : 
£. £. £. £. 
96 : 12 :: 24 : 3 = AV gaiit. 
96 : 12 52 : 4 = B's gain. 
96 : 12 :: 40 : 5 = Cs gain. 
FEL 
Proof, SI. -f- 4k -f- 5k = 12k the whole 
gain. 
That is, if the total of all tlicir particular 
gains amounts to the whole gain, the work 
is triie ;. if not, some mistake has been com- 
mitted. 
Fellowship with time, usually called 
the Double Rule of Fellowship, because 
every mail’s money is to be considered with 
relation to the time of its continuance in 
the joint stock. It is worked thus : multi- 
ply each man’s stock by the respective time 
he puts it in for, and add all the products, 
the total of which must be your first num- 
ber through all the statings ; the gain or 
loss the second, as before, and each man’s 
particular stock, multiplied by its time, the 
third. 
Note, the times, and sums, (if not so 
given) must be reduced into yme denomina- 
tion, i. e. all years, all months, all weeks, or 
all days, &c. 
Ex. Three merchants, A, B, and C, en- 
ter into partnership thus : A puts into the 
stock 65k for eight months ; B puts in 7 til. 
for twelve months ; and C puts in 847. for 
six months : with this joint stock they traf- 
fic, and gain 166k 12s. ; it is required to 
find each man’s share of the gain propor- 
tionable to his stock and time of employ- 
ing it. , 
£. 
1. A’s stock, 65 x 8 months, the time it was emploj-cd = 520 
2. B's stock, 78 X 12 months, the time it was employed = 936 
3. C’s stock, 84 X 6 months, the time it was employed r= 504 
The sum of all those products is i960 
Then, the several proportions will stand thus ; 
£. s. <1. 
1960 : 166,6 :: 520 : 44, 2 = 44.. 4 .. 0 for A’s share. 
1960 : 166,6 :: 936 : 79,56 = 79 .. 11 .. 24 for B’s share. 
1960 : 166,6 :: 504 : 42,84 = 42- 16 .. 9^ for C’s share. 
The whole gain = £ 166 .. 12 .. 0 
FELO de se, hi law, one who is felon of 
himself; i. e. lining of sound memory, and 
of the age of discretion, or 14 years, kills 
himself. All his chattels, real and personal, 
are forfeited to the crown, when it is found 
by the Coroner that he is felo de se; a will, 
therefore, made by him, is void as to his 
personal estate, but not as to his land or 
real estate ; nor is his wife barred of her 
dower. If a man and his wife are possessed 
of a term, and the man commit suicide, the 
term is forfeited, and the wife shall not have 
it by survivorship. The Coroner must find 
the fact upon an inquest, on view of the 
body, in order to vest the goods in the 
King. 
This law is, in our opinion, hard and un- 
just : if a man is determined to commit sui- 
cide, human laws can have no hold upon 
him ; and the cruelty of punishing the de- 
scendant for the act of the father, is so ge- 
nerally acknowledged, that where the party 
has any thing to forfeit, it is either found lu- 
nacy, or the crown gives up the forfeiture 
