Forurth

In old records. A long slip of ground.

Cowell.

F09. stag. sepe. qne vi. diversi cursiu aqna^UA, Poflcunt aasiflam; mercatum, feria, bancum. A Latin couplet, artificially constructed of words and parts of words, anciently used as an aid to the memory, to show in what courts certain kinds of disseisin by nuisance were cognizable. By writing the abbreviated words at length, the following sentence is produced: Fossatum, stagnum, sepesqiie, via, diversi cursus aquarum, poscunt assisam; mercatum,feria, bancum. In literal English, — ditch, pool, hedge, way, diverted water courses, require the assise; market and fair, the bench: that is, dissei* sins by digging a ditch, raising or lowering a pond, building or throwing down a hedge, obstructing or narrowing a road, and diverting a water course, must be determined before the justices of assise; disseisins of a market and fair, before the bench, (that is the court of common bench, or common pleas.) Beg. Grig. 199, nota.