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Forisfacere

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Forfacere.

L. Lat. [from foris, without, and facere, to make.] In old English law. To forfeit; to lose what belonged to one by some fault or crime; to make it foreign to one's self, (sibi extraneum facere.) Spelman. See To Forfeit. Forisfacit patriam et regnum, et exul efficitur; he forfeits country and kingdom, and is made an exile. Bract. fol.

128 b.

Forisfacit amicos; he forfeits friends. Id. ibid. Forisfacit utlagatus omnia quae pacis sunt; the outlaw forfeits all the privileges of a state of peace. Id. ibid. Forisfacit omnia quae juris sunt; he forfeits all his lawful rights. Id. fol.

129.

To incur a penalty; to confiscate.

Spelman.

To commit, or be guilty of an offence; to transgress a law; to do an injury.

Spelman. LL.

Edw. Conf. c. 32, cited ibid. To do a thing against or without law or custom, (extra legem seu consuetudinem facere.) Co. Litt. 59 a.