In Spanish law. Any tribute or loan granted to the king for the purposeof enabling him to defray the expenses of a war.

A fountain or spring. Bract, fol. 233.

1. A measure of length containing twelve inches or one-third of a yard.2. The base, bottom, or foundation of anything; and, by metonomy, the end ortermination; as the foot of a fine.

The fifth part of the conclusion of a fine. It includes the wholematter, reciting the names of the parties, day. year, and place, and before whom it wasacknowledged or levied. 2 Bl.

In the forest law. An aniereenient for not cutting out the ball or cutting off the claws of a dog’s feet, (expeditatinghim.) To be quit of footgeld is to have the privilege

In the law of evidence. Impressions made upon earth, snow, orother surface by the feet of persons, or by the shoes, boots, or other covering of thefeet. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 204.

Fr. In French law. A tribunal. Lc for intcricur, the interior forum; the tribunal ofconscience. Poth. Obi. pt. 1, c. 1,

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