In Spanish law. The place where tribunals hear and determine causes,

An exception; reservation; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term offrequent use In leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount.In another sense, the word la taken for any exaction.

A strip of land lying next to the highway.

Waterfalls. Camden, Brit

An attorney or advocate in a cause. Blount; Whishaw.

In old English law. Prolocutor ; paranymphus.

See FORESTALL.Forstellarius est pauperum depressor et totius coinmunitntis et patria; pub- llcusiaimicus. 3 Inst. 190. A forestaller is an oppressor of the poor, and a public enemy ofthe whole community and country.

In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue.This term is wider in its scope than “perjury.” for the latter, as a technical term, includesthe idea

This term means “something more than a mere military camp, post, orstation. The term implies a fortification, or a place protected from attack by some suchmeans as a moat, wall, or parapet”

A fortress or place of strength, which anciently did not pass without a special grant. 11 Hen. VII. c. 18.

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

In Scotch law. The action by which an arrestment (garnishment) ismade effectual. It is a decree or process by which the creditor Is given the right todemand that the sum arrested be

As soon as, by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, a thing may be done. Thus, when a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty-four hours. When a

Force. In old English law.Force used by an accessary, to enable the principal to commit a crime, as by binding orholding a person while another killed him, or by aiding or counseling

In old English law. A fortified place; a castle; a bulwark. Cowell; 11 Hen. VII. c. IS.

Lat. Stronger. A term applied, in the law of evidence, to that species ofpresumption, arising from facts shown in evidence, which Is strong enough to shift theburden of proof to the opposite

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

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

In French law. Accidental; fortuitous. Cas fortuit, a fortuitous event Fortuitment, accidentally; by chance.

Accidental; undesigned; adventitious. Resulting from unavoidable physical causes.