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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In Old English Law. A headland, or foreland.

Cowell. FORI OI8PUTATIONES.

In Civil Law. Arguments in court. Disputations or arguments before a court. Eminent citizens and statesmen often debated in the forum, and their answers to questions put were gradually adopted by the courts and incorporated into the body of the Roman law under this name.

1 Kent 630; Vicat, Voc. Jur. verb. Disputatio.

FORINSECUS (Lat.), FORINSIC. Outward; on the outside; without; foreign; belonging to another manor. Silio forinsccus, the outward ridge or furrow. Servitium forinsecum, the payment of aid, scutage, and other extraordinary military' services. Forinsecum mancrium, the manor, or that part of It which lies outside the bars or town and is not Included within the liberties of it, Cowell; Blount; Cunningham, Law Diet.; Jacob, Foreign Service; 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng, Law 273. For insec service was the service due to the crown upon land; service due between grantor and grantee was termed intrinsic.

2 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 158. See 1 Poll. & Maitl. 217.

FORIS (Lat). Out at the doors, out of door; abroad; without. Harp. Lat. Diet.