Foreign office

The department of state through which the English sovereign communicates with foreign powers. A secretary of state is at its head. Till the middle of the last century, the functions of a secretary of state as to foreign and home questions were not disunited.

— Foreign service, in feudal law. that whereby a mesne 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 lord paramount out of the fee. (Kitch. 299 ) Foreign service seems also to be used for knight's service, or escuage uncertain. (Perk. 650.) Jacob. As to foreign "Administrator," "Assignment," "Attachment," "Bili of Exchange," "Charity," "Co.mmerce," "Corporation," "Co.unty," "Creditor," "Divorce," "Document," "Domiclle," "Factor," "Judgment," "Jurisdiction," "Jury," "Minister," "Pica," "Port," "State," "Vessel," and "Voyage," see those titles.

Defined under Foreign in Black's Law Dictionary.