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Poreig'n

Defined in 1 dictionary — Kinney (1893)

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Forein, forrein, I, ticular territory, district another jurisdiction; made, done or transacted tion; operating without, trinsic or irrelevant; tor: an administrator country or another state. in a foreign country or attachment, in American resident and absconding is called trustee process, English law, an attachment bill: a bill of exchange eign state or country. by or under the laws of eign county: another remote or adjacent. state or country where domicil: domicil in a judgment: a judgment of a foreign country. eign county. Foreign Foreign matter: matter port: a port exclusively Foreign state: a state posed within the limits a, voyage to some port nation. In old English law. county where it was chequer whose business record. Foreign prohibiting enlistment, Foreign plea: a plea the matter in hand was the service by which a exclude; to bar; to bar an equity of redempof barring the equity of redemption of a law. A kind of premium paid by a ten- Sometimes called foregift, but more usually fr. Without or beyond the limits of a paror jurisdiction; belonging without, or to originating or coming from without or abroad; without, or in another territory or jurisdicor in another territory or jurisdiction; exextraordinary or extra. Foreign administraappointed, in and under the law of a foreign Foreign assignment: an assignment made in another stata Foreign attachment; an law, against the property of absent, nondebtors, a species of which in some states and in othei-s garnishee process; in the of a foreign or absent debtor. Foreign drawn in one state or country, upon a for- Foreign corporation: a corporation created apother state, government or country. Forcounty in the same kingdom or state, — whether Foreign divorce: a divorce obtained out of the the marriage was solemnized. Foreign foreign country or in another state. Foreign obtained in a foreign court, or in the court Foreign jury: a jury from another, or forlaw: the law of a foreign country or stata triable or done in another county. Foreign within the sovereignty of a foreign nation. occupying a foreign territory, or not comof another state or nation. Foreign voyage: or place within the territory of a foreign Foreign answer: an answer not triable in the made. Foreign apposer: an officer in the exwas to examine sheriffs' estreats with the enlistiiient act: the statute 59 Geo. III., c. 69, as a soldier or sailor, in any foreign service. objecting to a judge as incompetent, because not within his precinct. Foreign ser Tice; mesne lord held over of another, without the