A Law Dictionary and Glossary

sc. In old Scots law. Forethought; premeditated.

folkland, sax. in Saxo% law. Land of the people or public; so called either because usually distributed among the common people, or because it was the property of the whole communi

In English law. Land used as a sheep walk; land to

fulgnre, 1. 1 In Saxon law. To establish one's self in a friborg or frankpledge; to become the dependent or follower of another.

folgeres, tt In Saxon law. Followers; dependents or servants.

sax. In old English law. Followers or servants.

A leaf of a book or manuscript; a leaf or sheet-of parchment or paper, containing a certain number of words; a certain number of words, without reference to the paper or parchment

L In old English law. Weight; poundage; a duty paid to the king, according to the weight and measure of merchants' goods. Pondus regris: the king's weight; the standard weight

In old English law. The conclusion of a fine, reciting the parties, day, year and place, and before whom it was acknowledged or levied. For, fore, fors, I. Jr. Out; without For tha

forisbannitns, n. In old European law Banished; outlawed.

I. fr. In old English law. To bar out; to prevent or preclude; to estop. Forbarres: barred, prevented or estopped.

A holding from proceeding; an abstaining from the enforcement of a right; indulgence by a creditor to a debtor.

Efficacy; power in law to bind; strength; compulsory power; mere strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law; violence. Force and arms: a phrase in the old law of t

fr. In old English law. A technical term applied to a species of accessory before the fact.

A sale made under the process of the court, and in the mode prescribed by law.

/. fr. In the law of insurance. Superior or irresis force.

I. I. In old English law. Force.

Violently taking possession of lands or tenements; the action therefor. Forcible detainer: violently keeping possession of lands and tenements; the action therefor.

I. I In old English law. Land lying before, or in front of other-land; a foreland; a headland.

To shut out or tion.

The process mortgagor.

In English / ant on tailing a lease. a fine,

In American law. An alien; a person born in and owing allegiance to a foreign state or country. In old English law. A person not an inhabitant of a city.

forrein, forreine, foreyn, Ifr. Foreign; belonging without; a foreigner or stranger; a person not an inhabitant of a city.

forjudge. In old English law. To expel from court, for some offense or misconduct; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court; to banish or expel.

forjndger. In English law. A judgment by which a man is deprived or put out of a thing; a judgment of expulsion or banishment

The presiding member of a jury, who speaks or answers for the jury.

I. In old Scots law. A strange man or stranger; an outdwelliug man; an " unfree-man," who dwells not within burgh. In the civil law. Belonging to, or connected with a court; forens

In English law. A large extent of counti-y, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use and diversion, and having certain l

forestis, forestum, forasta, I I In old English law. A forest

I. I. In old English law. A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.

forstall, forestal, forstal, sax. In English law. To obstruct or stop up a way, to stop the passage of a person or thing on the highway. Forestall the market: to buy up provisions

forstaller. In English law. One who forestalls; the obstruction of a way or road, or the hindering of a person or thing from passing.

I I. In old English law. A forester.

In English law. A sworn ofl Bcer of the forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, to take care of a forest

In Scots law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design.

forfeng', forefengr, a taking of provisions the king's purveyors

To lose what crime; to make it lose it to another; to one's own wrongful

Lost by one's

The loss of or transgression of surrender, consequent the thing so lost or

sax. In old taking.

1. 1., Forgavel. in money; a quit rent

To make or view to deceive and

The fraudulent purpose of fraud and thing itself, so falsely writing. In the law duction of false ployment or arrangement the purpose of deceiving observers. Fori disputationes, I.

forinsecum, external; extrinsic; foreign tenants, as secnm servitium: Forisbannitus. v.

forfacere, what belonged to one one's self; to incur a amicos: he forfeits forfeits all his lawful exul el Hcitur: he exile. Forisfacit feits all the px-ivileges

forfactura, socc. In Saxon law. A previous taking; from any person in fairs or markets, before were served with necessaries for the sovereign. belongs to one by some fault, miscond

I. I. In old English and Scots law. Literally, to put out of a family; to portion oil a son, so that he could have no further claim upon his father; to emancipate, or free f x-om p

In old English law. Portioned off,— applied to children.

I. I In old English law. Put out of a family; portioned off; emancipated; forisfamiliated.

Z. Z. In old English law. To forswear; to renounce or relinquish by or under oath.

/. v. Abjudicatio.

I. I. In old English law. Deprived or put out of a thing bi' the judgment of a court; forjudged.

I fr. In old English law. To forjudge, or expel; to deprive of; to condemn; to lose. Forjuges de fraunche ley: forjudged of their frank-law.

Z. /r. In old English law. To forswear; to abjure. Forjurer royalme: to abjure the realm.

forlanda, Z. 1. In old English law. Land extending beyond, or lying before other land; a foreland; land bordering or lying outward.

I. Form; the prescribed form of judicial proceedings; a form prescribed by statute. Forma dat esse: form gives being. Forma et flgura jndicii: the form and shape of judgment or jud

1. 1. Formed writs; writs of form.

An action for which a set form of words is prescribed, which must be strictly adhered to.

formdon, I. fr. In old English law. An action, in the nature of a writ of right, given by the statute Westm. 3, c, 1. as the peculiar remedy of a tenant in tail, in case of a disco

A recovery in a former action, v. Res judicata,

I. A form of words in judicial proceedings, generally written, always consisting of the same parts, and expressed in the same language, except where variation is necessary to accom

Collections ot formulae, or forms of forensic proceedings and instruments used among the early continental nations of Europe.

I. In the forum or jurisdiction, v. Forum.

foreprise, foysprise, /. fr. and eng. In old English law. An exception; a reservation.

sax. In old English law. The liberty of having a view of frank-pledga

An attorney or advocate in a cause.

forte, fnrk, I. fr. But; only.

forestal, forstall, sane. In old English law. A standing before, or stopping; a stopping of the way? v. Forestalling.

2. I In old English law. A forestal ment, or forestalling.

I. I In old English law. To stop a way; to stop on the way; to forestall.

forstallator, forstellator, I. I. In old English law. A forestaller.

In old English law. An obstruction or stopping of a way.

To abjure, or renounce by oath; to swear falsely.

Sir John. An English judge of the time of Henry VI., author of a book, De Laudibus Legum Anglice, written in praise of the common law.

In American law. A bond to the sherifif conditioned to deliver property levied on, when demanded. In Scots law. Forthcoming, process or decree of: a decree and process following th

Without delay; within a reasonable time.

forcia, I. I. In old English law. Force used by an accessary, to enable the principal to commit a crime, as by binding or holding a person while another killed hira, or by aiding o

I. Strong; effective; of weight, force or effect Fortis et sana: strong and sound; staunch and strong. Fortior: stronger, more positio legis qnam hoininis: the disposition of the l

fr., Fortuitus, l, Fortuitous. Accidental Fortuitous collision: the accidental running foul of vessels. In the dvil law. Fortuitus: accidental. Fortuitus casus: a fortuitous event;

2. Fortune; chance. Fortunamfaciant jndiceni,ut quilibet habeat partem illam qna3 per sortem ei acciderit: they shall make fortune or chance the judge, that each one may have that

I. I. A court; a jurisdiction; a place where legal redress is sought. Forum qctus: the forum of the place where the thing was done. Forum conscientise: the forum or tribunal of con

I. In old English law. A ditch; a pit full of water, in which women committing felony were drowned; a grave. In the civil law. A ditch, a receptacle of water, made by hand.

I. I. In old English law. A dyke; a bank of earth thrown up out of a ditch; a ditch or trench: a moat or fosse around an encampment or fortified place; a canal; a place fenced with

I. Afterwards; the entry, on record, of the proceedings on the trial of a cause, including the verdict.

Land given to the finding of food or victuals for any person or persons; as in monasteries for the monks, etc.

One who endows a corporation, or gives the revenues or funds for its establishment; one who gives a corporation its existence by incorporating it

forcher, foercher, l.fr. In old English law. A terra applied to a particular mode of casting essoins by two or more tenants, simul et vicissim, that is, alternately, and in success

The whole of an instrument, — no one part more than another. In English law. Four seas: the seas encompassing England, or the island of Great Britain.

In English law. Birds of game; which are divided by Coke into field birds, wood birds, and water fowl; but of which according to Manwood tliere are but two kinds, — the pheasant an

foi, I. fr. Faith; fidelity; oath.

L In the civil law. One who had the usufruct of a thing, — i. e. the use of the fruits, profits or increase, as of lands or animals.

I. A bi-eaking; a bi-each. Fractio fldei: a breach of promise or of trust.

A breaking, or breaking up; a fragment or broken part; a portion of a thing, less than the whole. Fraction of a day: the division or breaking up of a day into smaller portions of t

I. In old English law. A breaker. Fractores gaolarnm: gaol or prison-breakers.

/. The breaking, or wreck of ships; the same as naufragium. v. Shipwreck.

I. fr. Free. v. Frank; Frauna; Fraunche.

I. I. In old English law. To enfrancliise; to make free.

I. I. In old English law. A freeman; a freeholder or free tenant; a franclaine, frankleyne or frankelein.

In American laiv. A particular privilege conferred by grant from government and vested in individuals. In English law. A liberty; a privileged place; a royal privilege, or a branch