Law Dictionary

A strip of land lying next to the highway.

[from Sax. for, before, and sceat, a part or portion; L. Lat. forecheta.] In old records. The outer or forepart of a furlong; the skirt, or slip, or small piece that lay next the h

Waterfalls. Camden, Brit.

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

An attorney or advocate; one who speaks for another. Blount.

In old English law. Prolocutor; paranymphus.

Forspris. L. Fr. Except. Zitt, sect. 19. Kelham,

Only.

An intercepting or stopping in the highway. See "Forestall." FORSTELLARIUS EST PAUPERUM DEpressor, et totlus communitatis et patriae publicus inimicus. A forestaller is an oppresso

Fr. To stop; to obstruct; to forestall. Zitt, sect. 240.

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.

Lat. In old English law. To stop a way; to stop on the way; to forestall. Spelman, Forstallarius; (in Domesday, Foristel* larius.) A forestalled Stat, 13 Fdw. I. Beg. Orig, 271 b.

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

A fore-staller is an oppressor of the poor and is a public enemy to the whole community and the country.

3 Inst. 196. A forestaller is an oppressor of the poor, and a public enemy of the whole community and country.

In criminal law. To swear to a falsehood. This word has not the same meaning as "perjury." It does not, ex vi termini, signify a false swearing before an officer or court having au

Something more than a mere military camp, post, or station; it Implies a fortification or a place protected from attack by some such means as a moat, wall, or parapet. U. S. V. Tic

or FORTELACE. A fortress or place of strength which anciently did not pass without a special grant. 11 Hen. VII. c. 18. They were oriffiually built for the defence of the country,

In old Scotch law. A fortaliee; a castle. Properly a house or tower which has a battieinent or a ditch or moat about it.

To tax heavily.

Wrongly or extortionately taxed.

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.

or FOR THAT WHEREAS. Words used in introduction in a declaration. "For that whereas" introduces recitals, "For that," positive allegations. Hammond, N. P. 9.

Introductory words In pleading. See Hamm. N. P. 9. These words are used in the introduction of the statement of the plaintiff’s case as a recital in the declaration in all actions

In Scotch law. The action by which an arrestment (attadiment) of goods is made available to the creditor or holder. given ordering the debt to be paid or the arrested goods to be g

A bond given for the security of the sheriff, conditioned, to produce the property levied on when required. 2 Wash. (Va.) 189; 11 Grat. (Va.) 522.

A bond given for the security of the sheriff, conditioned to produce the property levied on when re- Clary v. Haines, 61 Ga. 520; Aycock v. Austin, 87 Ga. 566, 13 S. E. 582. The me

A stock exchange term. A broker having an order to buy or sell may contract for the specific amount of stock ordered to be bought or sold, or may Include such order with other orde

Generally a gift is the antithesis of such production or collection because it reduces the donor's resources whether income producing or not.

The federal mail fraud statute does not purport to reach all frauds, but only those limited instances in which the use of the mails is a part of the execution of the fraud, leaving

The federal mail fraud statute does not purport to reach all frauds, but only those limited instances in which the use of the mails is a part of the execution of the fraud, leaving

In the case of a plan which the Secretary of Labor finds to be collectively bargained, established or maintained by an employer doing business in not less than 40 States and engage

In an action at law by one for the use of another the expression "for the use of" is for the purpose of protecting the interest of the usee against the nominal plaintiff, and not f

As soon as, by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, it may be accomplished. This is the import of the term. Style, Pr. Reg. 452, 453. The words "forthwith" and "immediately

Force.

Fresh force (q. v.)

A fortified place; a castle; a bulwark. Cowell. FORTIOR (Lat.) Stronger. A term applied, in the law of evidence, to that species of presumption, arising from facts shown in evidenc

Stronger; greater.

The custody of the law is stronger than that of a man.

The will of the law is stronger and more powerful than that of a man See 8 Johns. (N. Y.) 401.

See "A Fortiori."

Strong. Fortis et sana, strong and sound; staunch and strong; as a vessel. Towns. PI. 227.

A place or port of some strength; a little fort. Old Nat. Brev. 45.

Accidental.

Same as Fortuit.

Accidental; inevitable.

An accidental collision.

In civil law. That which happens by a cause which cannot be resisted. Code La. art. 2522, No. 7. That which neither of the parties has occasioned or could prevent. Lois des Bat. pt

Lat. [from fors, chance.] In the civil law. Accidental. Fortuitus casus; a fortuitous event; an accident. Inst. 3. 15. 2.

Lat. Fortune; also treasure-trove. Jacob.

They make fortune the judge. Co. Litt. 167. Spoken of the process of making partition

in wartime many losses must be attributed solely to the fortunes of war, and not to the sovereign. No rigid rules can be laid down to distinguish compensable losses from noncompens

One who pretends to be able to reveal future events; one who pretends to the knowledge of futurity. It was a practice during the Middle Ages, and is still far from dying out, thoug

In English law. Persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes, and punishable as rogues and vagabonds or disorderly persons. 4 Bl. Comm. 62.

In Old English Law. A tournament or fighting with spears, and an appeal to fortune therein.

In land laws and conveyancing, in those regions where grants, transfers, and deeds are made with reference to the subdivisions of the government survey, this term means forty acres

One of the English forest courts.

At Common Law. A place; a place of jurisdiction; the place where a remedy is sought; jurisdiction; a court of justice. Forum conscientiae. The conscience. Forum contentiosum. A cou

The jurisdiction of the act.

it should be incumbent on the party seeking to escape his contract to show that trial in the contractual forum will be so gravely difficult and inconvenient that he will for all pr

The forum of conscience; a court of equity.

The forum or tribunal of conscience.

A contentious forum or court; a place of litigation; the ordinary court of justice, as distinguished from the tribunal of conscience. 3 Bl. Comm. 2ll.

Lat A ooatentiouB lorum or court; a pliaee of litigation; tbe ordinary court of instice, as distinguished from the tribunal of conscience. 3 BL Com. 211.

The forum of the contract, the place of contracting.

A domestic forum or jurisdiction.

The forum or court of one’s domicile.

The forum of the plaintiff,s domicile.

The forum of the defendant’s domicile.

An ecclesiastical court or forum.

The forum of chance.

The forum of the plaintiff’s allegiance.

The forum of the defendant’s allegiance.

The forum of defendant's allegiance. The court or jurisdiction of the country to which he owes allegiance.

The forum where the action is brought.

The principle of forum non conveniens is simply that a court may resist imposition upon its jurisdiction even when jurisdiction is authorized by the letter of a general venue statu

The forum of one’s birthplace.

The king’s court.

The king's court. St. Westm. 2. c. 43.

The forum of the defendant; the forum of the subject matter of the action.

The forum or court of a res gesta, (thing done;) the place where an act is done, considered as a place of jurisdiction and remedy. 2 Kent, Comm. 463.

The forum of the place where the act was committed.

Lat. The forum or court of the defendant, [reus, rei;] the court of the place where the defendant is, or resides. Bract, fol. 401. The same with forum domicilii, (q. v.) See Actor

The court where the thing in controversy is situated. The place where the subject-matter in controversy ls sifuated, considered as a place of jurisdiction. 2 Kent, Comm. 463.

The forum where the subject matter of the action is situated.

A secular court.

A secular, as distinguished from an ecclesiastical or spiritual, court.

such clauses are prima facie valid and should be enforced unless enforcement is shown by the resisting party to be 'unreasonable' under the circumstances

A long slip of ground. Cowell.

Words used to describe a suit. Judgment, or decree in which the nominal plaintiff sues for the benefit or advantage of another. This is necessary in some cases where an assignee is

Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term “for use as a weapon” includes the development, production, transfer, acquisition, retention, or possession of any biological age

Generally the expression "for value received" used in a note imports a consideration. 177 111. 291.

The term “forward auction” means the portion of an incentive auction of broadcast television spectrum under section 1452(c) of this title .

The term “forward collection” means the transfer by a bank of a check to a collecting bank for settlement or the paying bank for payment.

The term “forward contract” means— (A) an agreement for the purchase of cattle, executed in advance of slaughter, under which the base price is established by reference to— (i) pri

The term “forward contract merchant” means a Federal reserve bank, or an entity the business of which consists in whole or in part of entering into forward contracts as or with mer

One wlio receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensation from the owners, having no concern in the vessels or

A person who receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensation from the owners, but who has no concern in the ve