Foreign Service
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. forinsecum servitium.] In old English law. The service by which a mesne lord held over of another, without (foris) the compass of his own fee. Bro. Abr. Tenures, fol.
28, 96, 251. Kitch. 209.
Cowell, voc.
Foreign.
The service which a tenant performed either to his own lord, or to the lord paramount, out of his fee. Called foreign (forinsecum) because it was done and taken without, (foris,) or besides (extra) the service done to the lord paramount. Bract. fol.
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See Forinsecus, Forinsecum servitium.