Straw when the corn is threshed out. Cowell.

One from without; a foreigner ; a stranger. Calvin.

In old records. A fore- balk ; a balk (that is, an unplowed piece of land) lying forward or next the highway. Cowell.

A pirate; an outlaw; one banished.

L. Fr. To bar out; to preclude; hence, to estop.

In old English law. The aggressor slain in combat Jacob.

The act of abstaining from proceeding against a delinquent debtor;delay in exacting the enforcement of a right; indulgence granted to a debtor. Reynolds v. Ward, 5 Wend. (N. Y.) 504; Dierks v.

Power dynamically considered, that is, in motion or in action; constraining power, compulsion; strength directed to an end. Usually the word occurs in such connections as to show that unlawful or wrongful

Fr. In the law of insurance. Superior or irresistible force. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12.

In Louisiana. Those persons whom the testator or donor cannotdeprive of the portion of his estate reserved for them by law, except in cases where hehas a just cause to disinherit them.

In practice. A sale made at the time and in the manner prescribed bylaw. in virtue of execution issued on a judgment already rendered by a court ofcompetent jurisdiction; a sale made

Pre-emption; forestalling the market. Jacob.

The offense of violently keeping possession of lands andtenements, with menaces, force, and arms, and without the authority of law. 4 Bl.Comm. 148; 4 Steph. Comm. 280.Forcible detainer may ensue upon a

An offense against the public peace, or private wrong, committedby violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force, and arms,against the will of those entitled to the possession, and without

The action of forcible entry and detainer is a summary proceeding to recoverpossession of premises forcibly or unlawfully detained. The inquiry in such cases doesnot involve title, but is confined to the

In North Carolina, this is an invasion of the rights of anotherwith respect to his personal property, of the same character, or under the samecircumstances, which would constitute a “forcible entry and

A butt or headland, jutting out upon other land. Cowell.

In old records. Grass or herbage growing on the edge or bank of dykes or ditches. Cowell.

A process in chancery by which all further right existing in a mortgagor to redeem the estate is defeated and lost to him, and the estate becomes the absolute property of the

In Scotch law. To forfeit ; to lose.