Law Dictionary

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Lat. To forfeit. Spelman, voc. Forisfacere. See Forisfacere.

See Forisfactum, Forfactiis.

Lat. A forfeiture, Spelman, voc. Forvifacere, See Forisfactura.

Forfactum. L. Lat. [L. Fr. forfaict.] In old European lawti Forfeited. J)e rebus forfactis quce per diversos comitatus sunt, volumus ut ad pala* tium pertineant, iransacto anno et

Fr. [from Lat. forisfacere, q. v.] To forfeit. Forface; shall forfeit. Britt. c. 12. Forfist; forfeited. Et issi forfist ele dower; and so she forfeited dower. Id. c. 110. Forfait,

A taking beforehand; a taking provisions from any one in fairs or markets before the king's purveyors are served with necessaries for his majesty. Blount; Cowell.

Forfeiture.

To forfeit signifies the incurring of a forfeiture or penalty and is antagonistic to the idea of mere payment of compensation for damages for breach of contract. 172 111. App. 92.

Lost by one's

Subject to forfeiture; as a franchise for misuser or non-user, or iands or property for crime.

Same as Forfeiture.

a penalty; it has no necessary or natural connection with the measure or degree of injury which may result from a breach of contract, or from an imperfect performance.

A thing or sum of money forfeited. The word in this sense is frequently associated with the word penalty. 2 N. Y. Rev. St. [480], 394.

The same course of decision which has established that property of a subject or citizen taken trading with the enemy is forfeited, has decided also that it is forfeited as prize. T

The object of the prosecution against the Burdett is to enforce a forfeiture of the vessel, and all that pertains to it, for a violation of a revenue law. This prosecution then is

a bond executed to the Government in a specified penal sum prescribed by statute and intended as a fixed penalty imposed for a breach of a statutory duty, which is forfeited in its

the practice has been, and so this Court understand the law to be, that the proceeding in rem stands independent of, and wholly unaffected by any criminal proceeding in personam...

A failure to perform the condition on which the obligee was to be excused from the penalty in the bond. Courts of equity and of law in modern practice will relieve from the forfeit

Forfeiture of the corporate franchises might be declared where there is either wilful misuse or wilful nonuse of the franchise or franchises, which are of the essence of the contra

The general rule that the neutral carrier of enemy's property is entitled to his freight, is now too firmly established to admit of discussion. But to this rule there are many exce

A penalty incurred bjr a ward in chivalry when he or she married contrary to the wishes of his or her guardian in chivalry. 2 Bl. Comm. 70.

no one could take advantage of its nonperformance except the grantor or his heirs, or the successors of the grantor, if the grant proceeded from an artificial person, and that unle

la English Law. chequer to proclaim a forfeiture of such as was suffered to lie lu the docks.

the term "forfeiture or confiscation judgment" means a final order of a foreign nation compelling a person or entity— (A) to pay a sum of money representing the proceeds

The term forfeiture imports a penalty; it has no necessary or natural connection with the measure or degree of injury which may result from a breach of contract, or from an imperfe

Another name for the English act of 1870, abolishing forfeitures on conviction of felony.

In all forfeitures accruing at common law, nothing vests in the government until some legal step shall be taken for the assertion of its right; after which, for many purposes, the

Forfeiture under section 26 of title 2 of the National Prohibition Act is one of the consequences of a successful criminal prosecution of a personal offender, and is ancillary ther

Same as Forfang.

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

Lat. In old records. Forgavel; a quit rent. Cowell. See Forgavel.

A quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob.

A small rent reserved In money; a quit rent.

An establishment, or mechanical contrivance, by which iron is made, or manufactured from the ore. 1 Stock. Ch. (N. J.) 296. To forge means, properly speaking, no more than to make

the term "forged" means a document that purports to be genuine but is not because it has been falsely altered, completed, signed, or endorsed, or contains a false additio

As against the true owner, a right of property cannot be acquired by means of a forged written instrument relating to such property. This is the general rule. An exception to the r

Falsify. 1. To represent a fact falsely. 3. To tamper with a document by interlineation, ololiteration, or otherwise. See Altbbation, 3; Eecord. 3. To prove a thing to be false, pa

Fr. To frame or fashion; to contrive; to fabricate or forge. Z. Ft, Diet Kelham. This word is commonly supposed to be the origin of the English forge, (q. v.)

Forgery at common law denotes a false making (which includes every alternation of or addition to a true instrument), a making malo animo, of any written instrument for the purpose

1870, Thestatute 33 & 34 Vict. ¢. 58, was passed for the punishment of forgers of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1801. M

The stafute 33 & 34 Viet. c. 58, was passed for the punishment of forgers of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1861. -Mozle

Lat. In old records. A forge; a smith's forge. Cowell,

See Condone; Merctj Pardon.

The term “forgone interest” means, with respect to any period during which the loan is outstanding, the excess of— (A) the amount of interest which would have been payable on the l

A statute authorizing a continuance “for good cause” in the absence of a party is satisfied by proof of the illness of plaintiff in another state, and the ignorance of his attorney

that such consent shall be granted if found to be in the minor's best interests.

In old records. A herdland headland, or foreland. Cowell.

in feudal law, was that whereby a mesno lord held of another, without the compass of his own fee, or that which the tenant performed either to his own lord or to the Jord paramount

A vessel owned by residents in, or sailing under the tlag of, a foreign nation, “Yoreign vessel,” under the embargo act of January, 1808, means a vessel under the fiag of a foreign

In civil law. Arguments in court; disputations or arguments before a court. 1 Kent, Comm. 530; Vicat, "Disputatio."

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

That part of a manor which lies without the town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Par. Ant. 351. FORINSECUM SERVITIUM (Lat.) The payment of extraordinary aid. Kenne

shat part of « manor which lies without the town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Paroch. Antiq. 351.

The payment of extraordinary aid. Kennett, Gloss,

Forinsic.

Foreign; outside.

Abroad; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic.

or FORBANNITUS. Banished; outlawed. Spelman. FORISFACERE (Lat.) To forfeit; to lose on account of crime. It may be applied not only to estates, but to a variety of other things, in

To forfeit.

Property forfeited to the crown. See 1 Bl. Comm. 299.

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

Forfeited.

A forfeiture.

A forfeiture of all a man's property. Things which were forfeited. Du Cange. Spelman.

A felon.

A slave who has been a free man, but has forfeited hls freedom by crime. Du Cange.

In old English and Scotch law. Literally, to put out of a family, (forts familiam ponere.) To portion off a son, so that he could have no further claim upon his father. Gianv. lib.

or FORISFAMILIatus. In old English law. Portioned off. A son was forisfamiliated when he had a portion of his father's estate assigned to him during his father's life, in lieu of h

The separation of a child from the father’s family. Bell: Toml. One who is no longer an heir of the parent was termed forisfamiliatus. Du Cange; Spelman, Gloss.; Cowell. Similar in

Forisfamiliated.

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

Lat. [from foris, without, and judicare, to judge.] In old English law. To deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court; to forejudge. In praedicta curia nostra forisju

Forejudger, which see.

Forejudged. See Forejudge .

To forswear; to abjure.

To forswear; to abjure; to abandon. —Forisjurare parentilam. To remove oneself from parental authority. The person who did this lost his rights as heir. Du Cange. — Provinciam fori

To remove oneself from parental authority. The person who did this lost his rights as heir. Du Cange.

The same as Forestall Forstal, and Forestall, Used in Domesday Book. Spelman^ voc. Forstall,

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.

See "Forejudge." FORJURER (Law Fr.) In old English law. To forswear; to abjure. Forjurer royalme, to abjure the realm. Britt. cc. 1, 16.

See Abjudieatio, Fori^udicatio,

Forisjudicare. L. Lat. [from foris, without, and judicare, to judge; L. Fr. forjuger.] In old European law. To deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Spelman. Se

Lat. [from /orjudieare, q. v.] In old European law. Proscribed; outlawed; denied all access to the courts, ( foris omnem aditum jndicii constitutus,) Spelman, voc. Forjudicare. Con

Fr. In old English law. To forjudge, or expel. Il perde soun office, et soit forjugge la court; he shall lose his office, and be forjudged the court. Stat. 2 Hen. IV. c. 8. To depr

Same as Forisjurare.

L. Fr. In old English law. to forswear; to abjure. —Forjurer royalme. To abjure the realm. Britt, cc. 1, 16.

To abjure the realm. Britt, cc. 1, 16.

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

Forlanda. Law Lat. In old records. Land extending beyond, or lybefore other land; or bordering or lying outward; a foreland; an extra allowance of land; an allowance in meeting and

Land in the diocese of Hereford, which had a peculiar custom attached to it, but which has been long since disused, although the name is retained. Butl. Surv. 56.

In practice. The model of an instrument or legal proceeding, containing The legal order or method of legal proceedings or construction of legal instraments.

The term "Form 477" means Form 477 of the Commission relating to local telephone competition and broadband reporting.

Form.

Formal words introduced at the conclusion of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact denied is, in it

Form gives being. Lord Henley, C, 2 Eden, 99. FORMA LEGALIS FORMA ESSENTIALis. Legal form is essential form. 10 Coke, 100, 9 C. B. 493; 2 Hopk. 319.

The form and shape of judgment or judicial aotion. 3 Bl. Comm. 271.

Fumage.

Relating to matters of form; as, "formal defects;" inserted, added or Joined pro forma. See Pasties.

The term “formal document request” means any request (made after the normal request procedures have failed to produce the requested documentation) for the production of foreign-bas