A Dictionary of Law

In Englishlaw. A forester. An officer who takes care of the woodsand forests. De forestario upponendo, @ writ which lay to appoint a forester to prevent further commission of waste

In English law. Courts instituted for the government of the king's forest in different parts of the kingdom, and for the punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer or venis

<A sworn officer of the forest, appointed by the king’s letters patent to walk the forest, watching both the vert and the venison, attaching and presenting all trespassers against

The system or body of old law relating to the royal forests.

In Scotch law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. LErsk. Inst. 4, 4, 50; Bell.

In old English law. ‘The taking of provisions from any person in fairs or markets before the royal purveyors were served with necessaries for the sovereign. Cowell. Also the seizin

To lose an estate, a franchise, or other property belonging to one, by the act of the lew, and ag a consequence uf some misfeasance, negligence, or omission. will of the losing par

Liable tobe forfeited; subject to forfeiture for non-user, negicct, crime, ete.

A penalty incurred by a ward in chivalry whe married without the consent or against the will of the guardian. See DUPLEX Vator Manriraau.

supposed to lie in the docks, used, in times when its in portation was prohibited, to be proclaimed each term in the exchequer.

quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money, Jacob.

To fabricate, construct, or pre pare one thing in imitation of another thing, with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving and defrauding by

In criminal law. The falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a lega

1870, Thestatute 33 & 34 Vict. ¢. 58, was passed for the punishment of forgers of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1801. M

In old records. A herdland, headland, or foreland. Cowell.

in feudal law, was that whereby a mesno lord held of another, without the compass of his own fee, or that which the tenant performed either to his own lord or to the Jord paramount

A vessel owned by residents in, or sailing under the tlag of, a foreign nation, “Yoreign vessel,” under the embargo act of January, 1808, means a vessel under the fiag of a foreign

In thecivil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1 Kent, Comm. 530.

shat part of « manor which lies without the town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Paroch. Antiq. 351.

The payment of extraordinary aid. Kennett, Gloss,

Lat. Foreign; extetior; outside; e Xtraordinary. Servitium forinsecum, the payment of aid, scutage, and other extraordinary military services. Forinsecu manerium, the manor, or tha

In old English law. Exterior; foreien; extraordinary In feudal law, the term “forinsic services” comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or the rendition of extraordinary mi

Abroad; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic. © FORISFACERE. Lat. To forfcit; to Iese an estate or other property on account of some criminal or illegal act.

Forfeited. Sona forisfacta, forfeited goods, 1 Bl. Comm. 299. Acrime. Du Cange; Spelman.

A crime or offense through which property is forfeited. A fine or punishment in money. Forfeiture. The loss of property or life In consequence of crime. Forisfactura piend. <A forf

Acriminal. One who has forfeited his life by commission of a eapital offense. Spelman. Forisfactus servus. A slaye who has been a free man, but has forfeited his freadom by erime.

In old English and Scotch law. Juiterally, to put out of a family, (foris familiam ponere,) To portion olf a son, so that he could have no further elaim upon his father. Glany. lib

Inold English law. Portioned off. A son was said to be forisfamiliated (forisfaméliart) if his father assigned him part of his land, and gave him seisin thereof, and did this at th

In old English law. Put out of a family; portioned off; emancipated; forisfamiliated. Bract. fol. 64.

In old English law. Forejudger. A forejudgment. A judgment of court whereby 2 man is put out of possession of athing. Co. Litt. 1000. by judgment of court. Bract. fol. 2508; Co. Li

To forswear; to abjure; to abandon. Forisjurare parenttlam. Toremove oneself from parental authority. The person who did this lost his rights as heir. Du Cange. Provineiam forisjur

See FoREJUDGE,

if Fr. In old English law. To forswear; to abjure. Forjurer royalme, toabjure the realm. Britt. ce. 1, 16.

Land in the diocese of Hereford, which had a peculiar custom attached to it, but which has been long since disused, although the nameisretained. But. Surv. 56.

1. A model or skeleton of an instrument to be used in a judicial proceeding, containing the principal necessary matters, the proper technical terms or phrases, and whatever else is

Form; the preseribed form of judicial proceedings. Forma et figura judieii, the form and shape of judgment or judicial action. 3 BI. Comm. 271. Forma dat esse. Form gives being. Ca

Formal words introduced at the conclusion of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact denied is, in it

In England, robes worn by the magistrates of a city or corporation, etc., on solemn occasions. Ene. Lond.

The conditions, in re gard to method, order, arrangement, use of technical expressions, performance of specific acts, ete., which are required by the law in the making of contracts

See In Forma

In canon law. Canonical letters. Spelman,

Formed writs; writs of form. See Brevia Formar Ta.

An action for which a set form of words is prescribed, which must be strictly adhered to. 10 Mod. 140, 141.

A writ of formedon which lay where a gift was made in tail, and the tenant in tail atiened the lands or was disseised of them and died, for the heir in tail to recover them, agains

A writ of formedon which lay where there wag a gift in tail, and afterwards, by the death of the donee or his heirs without issue of his body, the reversion fell in upon the donor,

Acertain weightof above 70 lbs., mentioned in 51 Hen. III. Cowell.

or FOR-

Lat, Fearof danger. 1 Kent, Comm. 23,

The proper form for the conclusion of an indictment for an offense created by statute is the technical phrase “against the form of the statute in such case made and provided;” or,

The general designation of the various species or kinds of personal actions known to the common law, such as trover, trespass, debt, assumpsit, etc. These differ in their pleadings

In common-law practice, a set form of words used in judicial proceedings. In the civil law, an action. Calvin.

Collections of jsormule, or forms of forensic procecdings and instruments used among the Franks, and other mentioned as of considerable interest. Butl. Co. Litt, note 77, lib. 3.

The fea taken by a lord of his tenant, who was bound to bake in the lord’s common oven, (in furno domitit,) or for a commission to use his awn.

Unlawful sexual intercourss between two unmarried persons, Further, if one of the persons be married and the other not, it is fornication on the part of the latter, though adultery

Lat. A brothel; fornication.

In Spanish law. An oven. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 82, 1. 18.

In Spanishlaw. The place where tribunals hear and determine causes,—ezercendarum litium locus.

In Spanish law. Empbhyteutic rents. Schm. Civil Law, 309.

An exception; reservation; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term of frequent use in leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount. In another sense, the word is taken for any exaction.

A stripof land lying next to the highway.

Waterfalls. Camden, Brit.

An attorney or advocate in acause. Blount; Whishaw.

In old English law. Prolocutor; paranymphus,

See Foresratty. Forstellarius est pauperum depressor et totius communitatis et patris publicusinimieus. 3 Inst. 196. <A forestaller is an oppressor of the poor, and a public enemy

In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue. This term is wider in its seope than “perjury,” for the latter, as a technical term, includes the idea

This term means “smaething mors than a mere military camp, post, or station, The term implies a fortification, or a place protected from attack by some such Means as a moat, wall,o

A fortress or place of strength, which anciently did not pass without a special grant. 11 Hen. VII. ¢. 18.

In old Scotch law. A fortalice; a castle. Properly a house or tower which has a battlement or a ditch or moat about it.

In Scotchlaw. The action by which an arrestment (garnishment) is made effectual It is a decree or process by which the creditor is given the right to demand that the sum arrested b

A bond given to a sheriff who has levied on property, conditioned that the property shall be forthcoming, @. e., produced, when required. On the giving of such bond, the goods are

As soon as, by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, a thing may be done. Thus, when,a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty-four hours. When

Fresh fores, (g. 0.)

Ses A Forrionrti. FORTIS: Strong. Fortis et sana, strong and sound; staunch and strong; as a vessel, Tewnsh, Pl, 227,

A place or port of some strength; a little fort. Old Nat. Brev. 45.

In French law. Accidental; fortuitous. Cas fortuit, a fortuitous syent, Fortuitment, accidentally; by chance.

Accidental; undesigned; adventitious. Resulting from unavoidable physical causes.

In the civil law. That which happens by a cause which cannot be resisted. An unforeseen occurrence, not caused by either of the parties, nor such as they could prevent. In French i

Lat. Fortune; also treas- et, ure-trove. Jacob. Fortunam faciunt judicem. They make fortune the judge. Co. Litt. 167. Spoken of the process of making partition among coparceners by

Persons _pre- ——————e tending or professing to tell fortunes, and punishable as rogues and vagabonds or disorderly persons. Se

Inold Englishlaw. A tournament or fighting with spears, and an oS appeal to fortune Lherein.

The court of attachwent in forests, or wood-mote court.

Lat. A court of justice, or judicial tribunal; a place of jurisdiction; a place where a remedy is sought; a place of litigation. 8 Story, 347. In Roman law. The market place, or pu

The forum of the act. The forum of the place where the act was done which is now called in question.

The forum or tribunal of conscience,

A conten- a tious forum or court; a place of litigation; the ordinary court of justice, as distinguished from the tribunal of conscience. 3 Bl. Comm. 211.

The forum of the contract; the court of the place where acontractis made; the place where a contract is made, considered as a place of jurisdiction. 2 Kent, Comm. 463.

A domestic forum or tribunal. The visitatorial power is ae called a “forum domesticum,” calculated to determine, sine strepitu, all disputes that arise wilhin themselves. 1 W. Bl.

The forum or court of the domicile; the domicile of a de fendant, considered as a placeof jurisdiction.

The forum of defenvdant’s allegiance. The courter jurisdiction of the country to which he owes allegiance.

The court uf one’s nativity. The place of a person's birth, considered as a place of jurisdiction.

The king’s court. St. Westm. 2, ec. 43,

This term may mean either (1) the forum of the defendant, that is, of his residenee or domicile; or (2) the forum of the res or thing in controversy, that is, of the place where th

The forum or court of a res yesta, (thing done;) the place where an act is done, considered as a place of jurisdiction and remedy. 2 Kent, Comm. 463.

Thecourt where the thing in controversy is situated. The place where the subject-matter in controversy is situated, considered as a place of jurisdiction, 2 Kent, Comm. 463.

A secular, ag Hi distinguished from an ecclesiastical or spiritual, court.

In old records, A long slip of ground. Cowell.

1. For the benefit or advantageofanother. Thus, where an assignee is ‘obliged to sue in the name of his assignor, the suit is entitled “A. for use of B. v. C.” _ 2. For enjoyment o

One wlio receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensation from the owners, having no concern in the vessels or

or

In old records. Grass; herbage. 2 Mon. Angl. 9065; Cowell. FOQ:TICIDE. In medical jurisprudence, Destruction of the fetus; the act by which criminal abortion is produced. 1Beck, Me