A Dictionary of Law

Inold English law. A runaway; fugitive; one escaped from justice, or who has no “hlaford.”

In old English law. The offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown.

The reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw. Jacob.

In the civil for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage; sometimes called “usura maritima.” Dig. 22, 2; Code, 4, 33; 2 Bl. Comm. 458. The extraordinary rate of interest, propo

House-bote; fire-bote. Cowell.

In old English law. Fire. wood, The right of taking wood for the fire. Fire-bote. Cunningham.

Food for horses or cattle. In fendal law, the term also denoted a prerogative of the prince to be provided with corn, étc., for his horses by his subjects in his wars.

Provisions to be paid by custom to the royal purveyors. Cowell.

See Foppver.

A mine, Co. Litt. 6a. FGsDUS. In international law. A treaty; a league; a compact.

Inold English law. Fogage or fog; a kind of rank grass of late growth, and not eateninsummer. Spelman; Cowell.

In Seoteh law. When aeriminal does not obey the citation to answet, the court pronounces sentence of fugitation against him, which induces a forfeiture of goods and chattels to the

Lending money at Interest; the act of putting out money to usury.

In French feudal law. Faith: fealty. Guyot, Inst. Feed. c. 2.

In old English law. The fawning of deer. Spelman.

In old Scotch law. To forfeit. 1 Ilow. State Tr. 927.

Inold Scotch law. Forethought; premeditated. 1 Pite. Crim, Tr. pt. 1, p. 90.

Vagabonds. Blount.

In Saxon law. A general assembly of the peaple in a town or shire. It appears to have had judicial funetions of a limited nature, and also to have discharged political offices, suc

In Saxon law, J.and of tiie folk or people. Land belonging to the people or the public. Folc-land was the property of the community. It might be occupied in common, or possessed in

A general assembly of the people, under the Saxons. See Fouc-

The common right of ail the people. 1 G1. Comm. 65, 67. The jus commune, or common law, mentioned in the laws of King Edward the EIder, declaring the same equal right, law, or just

A privilege possessed in some places by the lord of a manor, which consists in the right of having his tenant’s sheep to feed on his fields, so a3 to manure the land, The name of f

In Englishlaw. Land to which the sole right of folding the cattle of others isappurlenant. Sometimes it means merely such right of folding. The right of folding on another's land.

Menial servants; followers. Bract.

Inold English law. A freeman, who has no house or dwelling of his own, but is the follower or retainer of another, (deorthfwst,) for whom he performs certain predial services.

In French law. A capital is said to be invested @ fonds perdus when it is stipulated that in consideration of the payment of an amount as interest, higher than the normal rate, the

In Spanish law. Any tribute or Joan granted to the king for the purpose of enabling him to defray the expenses of a war.

A fountain or spring. Braet. fol. 233.

1. A measure of length contain. ing twelve inches or one-third of a yard. 2. The base, bottom, or foundation of anything; and, hy metonomy, the end or termination; as the foot ofa

The fifth part of the conclusion of a fine. It includes the whole matter, reciting the names of the parties, day, year, and place, and before whom it wag acknowledged or levied. 2

In the law of evidence, Impressions made upon earth, snow, or other surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of thefeet. Burrill, Cire. Ey, 204.

Hay and straw for horses, particulurly in thearmy. Jacob,

Straw when the corn is threshed out. Cowell,

One from without; a foreigner; astranger. Calvin.

In forest law. One who could make oath, % e., bear witness for another. Cowell; Spelman.

In old records, <A forebalk; a balk (that is, an unplowed piece of land) lying forward or next the highway. Cowell.

A pirate; an outlaw; one banished.

Fr, To bar out; to preclude; hence, to estop.

By the English merchant shipping act, 1854, (17 & 18 Vict. c. 104,) § 2, any ship employed in trading, going bebween some place or places in the United Kingdom and some place or pl

Power dynamically considered, end. Usually the word occurs in such connections as to show that unluwful or wrongful action is meant, Unlawful violence. It is either simple, as ente

A phrase used in declarations of trespass and in indictments, but now unnecessary in declarations, to denote that the act compliined of was done with violence, 2 Chit. Pl. 846, 850

called also “vi metugue,” means that any contract or act extorted under the pressure of force (vis) or under the influence of fear (metus) is voidable G on that ground, provided, o

In practice. A sale made at the time and in the manner prescribed by law, in virtue of execution issued on a judgment already rendered bya court of competent jurisdiction; a sale m

Fr. In the law H of insuranee. Superior or irresistible force. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. ¢. 12.

The military and naval power of the country.

The offense of violently keeping possession of lands and tenements, with menaces, force, and arms, and without the authority of law. 4 BL. Comin. 148; 4 Steph. Comm, 280. Forcible

An offense against the public peace, or private wrong, committed by violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force, and arms, against the will of those enti

Inoldrecords, <A ford or shallow, made by damming or penning up the water. Cowell,

A butt or headland, jutting out upon other land. Cowell.

In old European law. He who first assaulted another. Spelman.

Im» old records, Grass or herbage growing on the edge or bank of dykes or ditches, Cowell.

Sax. Before. Fr. Out. Kelham.

In Scotch law. To for feit; to lose.

To shut ont; to bar. Used of the process of destroying an equity of redemption existing in a mortgagor.

A process in chancery by which all further right existing in a mortgagor to redeem the estate is defeated and lost to him, and the estate becomes the absolute property of the mortg

A premium for a lease.

Royal purveyors. 26 Edw. Ill. c, 6.

In English law. Rent payable in advance; or, more properly, a species of premium or bonus paid by the tenant on the making of the lease, and puarticularly on the renewal of leases

Belonging toanother nation or country; belonging or attached to another jurisdiction; made, done, or rendered in another state or jurisdiction; subject to another jurisdiction; ope

One appointed or qualified under the laws of a foreign state or country, where the deceden* was domiciled.

In old English practice. An answer which was not triable in the county where it was made. (St. 15 Hen, VI. c. 5.) Blount. a FOREIGN APPOSER. An officer in the exchequer who examine

An assignment made in a foreign country, or in another state. 2 Kent, Comm. 405, et seq.

In American law. <A process by which the property (lying within the jurisdiction of the court) of an absent or non-resident debtor is seized, in order to compel his appearance, or

Onecreated or endowed in a state or country foreign to that ‘of the domicile of the benefactor. 84 N. J. Eq. 101.

Coins issued as money under the authority of a foreign government. As to their valuation in the United States, see Rey. St. U. S. §§ 3564, 8365.

’ Commerce or trade between the United States and foreign countries. The term is sometimes applied to commerce between ports of two sister states not lying on the saine coast, e. g

A corporation created by or under the laws of another state, government, or country.

Any county having « judicial and municipal organization separate from that of the county where matters arising in the former county are called in question, though both may lie with

One who resides in a state or country foreign to that where the debtor has his domicile or his property.

A divorce obtained out of the state or country where the

One which was prepared or executed in, or which comes from, a foreign state or country.

A _ domicile established by a citizen or subject of one sovereignty within the territory of another.

The statute 59 Geo. JIL. ¢. 69, prohibiting the enlistinent, as a soldier or sailor, in any foreign service. 4 Steph. Comm, 226. <A later and more stringent act is that of 33 & 34

Drafts drawn on a foreign state or country,

A factor who resides in a country foreign to that where his principal resides.

Any jurisdiction foreign tothat of the forum. Also the exercise by a state or nation of jurisdiction beyond its own territory, the right being acquired by treaty or otherwise.

A jury obtained from a county other than that in which issue was joined.

The laws of a forchanges In, or additions to, our own laws, and in that respect are called “jus receptum.” Brown.

Inold practice. Matter triable er done in another county. Cowell.

An ambassador, minister, or envoy from a foreign government,

The department of state through which the English sovereign communicates with foreign powers. A secretary of stateisat its head. ‘Till the middle of the last century, the functions

A plea objecting to the jurisdiction of a judge, on the ground that he had not cognizance of the subjectmatter of the suit. Cowell,

A port exclusively within the sovereignty of a foreign nation. A foreign port or place is a port or place without the United States. 19 Johns. 375.

Leagues and arrangements made between states and kingdoms, by their ambassadors and ministers, for the mutual advantage of the kingdouis in alliance. Wharton.

A foreign country or nition, The several United States are considered “foreign” to each other except as regards their relations as common members of the Union.

A voyage to some port or place within the territory of a foreign nation. The terminus of a voyage determines itscharacter. If it be within the limits of aforeign jurisdiction, it i

An old form of foreign, (q. tb) Blount.

In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some ot fense or misconduct, When an ofiicer or ab torney of a court was expelled for any offense, or for not appearing to

In English practice, A judgment by which a man is deprived or put out of a thing; a judgment of expulsion or banishment. Sce For Esupex.

The presiding member of grand or petit jury, who speaks or answer for the jury.

Belonging to courts of justice,

or madical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is “that science which teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes of the law; hence its limits are

That part of the land adacent to the sea which is aiternately covered i left dry by the ordinary flow of the tides; »@, hy the medium line between the greatest least range of tide,

In old English law. A cern territory of wooded ground and fruitful tures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest and abide in the safe protectio

<A duty or tribute pay- I able to the king’s foresters. Cowell.

<A duty or tribute payable to the king’s foresters. Cowell.

In old English law. Obstruction; hindrance; the offense of stopping the highway; the hindering a tenant who forestalis; one who commits the offense of forestalling. 3 Bl. Comm. 170

Obstructing the highway. Intercepting a person on the high- Way.

The act of the buying or contracting for any merchandise or provision on its way to the market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; or the dissuading persons