FORFANG
In old English law. The taking of provisions from any person in fairs ormarkets before the royal purveyors were served with necessaries for the sovereign.Cowell. Also the seizing and rescuing of stolen
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In old English law. The taking of provisions from any person in fairs ormarkets before the royal purveyors were served with necessaries for the sovereign.Cowell. Also the seizing and rescuing of stolen
Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture for non-user, neglect, crime, etc.
1. A punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the
A quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob.
To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing iu imitation of another thing,with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving anddefrauding by the use of tlie spurious article.
In criminal law. The falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which, ifgenuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or tlie foundation of a legal liability. 2Bish. Crim.
In old records. A herd- land, headland, or foreland. Cowell.
In the civil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1Kent, Comm. 530.
Lat Foreign; exterior; outside; extraordinary. Scrvitium fo- rinsccum,the payment of aid, sc-utage, and other extraordinary military services. Fo- rinsccummanerium, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside the bars or
In old English law. Exterior ; foreign; extraordinary. In feudal law, theterm “forinsic services” comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or therendition of extraordinary military services, and in this sense was opposed
Lat. Abroad ; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic.
In old English law. Ranished.
Lat To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of somecriminal or illegal act. To confiscate.To act beyond the law, i. e., to transgress or infringe the law; to
Forfeited. Bona fo- risfacta, forfeited goods. 1 RI. Comm. 299. A crime. Du Cange; Spelman.
A crime or offense through which property is forfeited.A fine or punishment In money.Forfeiture. The loss of property or life in consequence of crime.
A criminal. One who has forfeited his life by commission of a capital offense. Spelman.
In old English and Scotch law. Literally, to put out of a family,(Joris familiam ponere.) To portion off a son, so that he could have no further claimupon his father. Glanv. lib.
In old English law. Put out of a family; portioned off; emancipated; forisfamiliated. Bract, fol. 64.
In old English law. Forejudger. A forejudgment. A judgment ofcourt whereby a man is put out of possession of a thing. Co. Litt. 1006.
Forejudged; sent from court; banished. Deprived of a thing byjudgment of court. Bract, fol. 2506; Co. Litt 1006; Du Cange.
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