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.

That part of the land adjacent to the sea which is alternately coveredand left dry by the ordinary flow of the tides; i. e., by the medium line between thegreatest and least

In old English law. A certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pastures,privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest andabide in the safe protection of the

A duty or tribute payable to the king’s foresters. Cowell.

To intercept or obstruct a passenger on the king’s highway. Cowell. Tobeset the way of a tenant so as to prevent his coming on the premises. 3 Bl. Comm.170. To intercept a

The act of the buying or contracting for any merchandise or provision on its way to the market, with the intention of selling it again at ahigher price; or the dissuading persons

In English law. A forester. An officer who takes care of tho woods and forests. Dc farcstario aiwoncn- ilo,a writ which lay to appoint a forester to prevent further commission of waste

In Scotch law. Murder committed in consequence of a previous design. Ersk. Inst 4, 4, 50; Hell.

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.