Law Dictionary

Relating to royal forests.

To obstruct a highway; see also Forestalling.

One who committed the offense of forestalling.

One who oommlts the offense of forestalling. Used, also, to denote the crime itself, namely, the obstruction of the highway, or hindering a tenant from coming to his land. 3 Bl. Co

Forstaller. [L. Lat. forstallator, forstallarius.] One who forestalls, or is guilty of the offence of forestalling. See Forestalling, Forstallarius.

Obstructing the way; intercepting a person on the highway.

Buying victuals on their way to the market before they reach it, with the intent to sell again at a higher price. Cowell; Blount; 4 Bl. Comm. 158. Every device or practice, by act,

A forester; an officer who takes care of the woods and forests. De forestario apponevdo, a writ which lay to appoint a forester to prevent further commission of waste when a tenant

In English law. Courts instituted for the government of the king's forests in different parts of the kingdom, ^nd for the punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer or veni

The term “forest-damaging insect” means— (A) a Southern pine beetle; (B) a mountain pine beetle; (C) a spruce bark beetle; (D) a gypsy moth; (E) a hemlock woolly adelgid; (F) an em

The term “forest development roads and trails” means forest roads and trails under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service.

A sworn offiter of the forest, appointed by the king's letters patent to walk the forest, watching both the vert and the venison, attaching and presenting all trespassers against t

For purposes of this subsection, the term “forester intern” means an Indian or Alaska Native who— (A) is acquiring necessary academic qualifications to become a forester or a profe

The term “forest highway” has the meaning given the term in section 101(a) of title 23 .1

“forest land management activities” means all activities performed in the management of Indian forest lands, including— (A) all aspects of program administration and executive dire

The term “forest land management activity” means any activity described in section 304(4) of the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act ( 25 U.S.C. 3103(4) ).

“forest lands” means lands designated as forest lands pursuant to section 544d of this title ;

The laws pertaining to the royal forests.

The royal grant of the right to hunt in forests.

The term "forest management activity" means a project carried out by the Secretary on National Forest System land.

“forest management plan” means the principal document, approved by the Secretary, reflecting and consistent with a tribal integrated resource management plan, which provides for th

the term “forest plan” means the land and resource management plan for the Six Rivers National Forest prepared pursuant to section 1604 of this title; / The term “forest plan” mean

The term “forest product” means a product made from materials derived from the practice of forestry or the management of growing timber. / The term “forest product” includes— (i) p

Forest products.—The term “forest products” includes lumber in bundles, rough timber, ties, poles, piling, laminated beams, bundled siding, bundled plywood, bundled core stock or v

The term "forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services" means— (i) activities to treat insect- and disease-infected trees; (ii) activities to reduce hazardous fu

The term “forest resources” shall include esthetics, fish and wildlife, forage, outdoor recreation opportunities, timber, and water; and / “forest resources” means all the benefits

The term “forest road or trail” means a road or trail wholly or partly within, or adjacent to, and serving the National Forest System that is necessary for the protection, administ

The term "Forest Service" means the United States Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture.

“forest trespass” means the act of illegally removing forest products from, or illegally damaging forest products on, forest lands;

In Scotch law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. Ersk. bk. 4, tit. 4, c. 50; Bell, Diet.

Compare Permanent. Used of the location of a county seat, may mean luitil changed by law.s In a conveyance, was held not to impart inheritable quality. ^

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