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.

A premium for a lease

Royal purveyors. 26 Edw. IIL c. 5.

In English law. Rent payable In advance; or, more properly, aspecies of premium or bonus paid by the tenant on the making of the lease, and particularlyon the renewal of leases by

Belonging to another nation or country; belonging or attached to anotherjurisdiction; made, done, or rendered in another state or jurisdiction; subject to anotherjurisdiction; operating or solvable in another territory; extrinsic; outside ;

In old English law, this term, when used with reference to a particularcity, designated any person who was not an inhabitant of that city. According to laterusage, it denotes a person who

An old form of foreign, (q. v.) Blount

In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some offenseor misconduct. When an ollicer or attorney of a court was expelled for any offense, orfor not appearing to an

The presiding member of a grand or petit jury, who speaks or answers for the jury.

Belonging to courts of justice.

or medical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is “that sciencewhich teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes ofthe law; hence its limits are, on the one

In the civil law. Belonging to or connected with a court; forensic.Forcnsis homo, an advocate; a pleader of causes; one who practices in court. Calvin.In old Scotch law. A strange man or

is used in Scotch law as aforesaid is in English, and sometimes, in aplural form, foresaids. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Forsaidis occurs in old Scotch records.”The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis.” 1 Pitc.

Foresaken; disavowed. 10 Edw. II. c. 1.