The name of a court among the Saxons. It was literally an assembly of the people or inhabitants of the tithing or town, its jurisdiction extended over...
Eng. law. By this phrase is understood land used as a sheepwalk, it also signifies land to which the sole right of folding the cattle of others is app...
Eng. law. Land formerly held at the pleasure of the lord, and resumed at his discretion. It was held in villenage. 2 Bl. Com. 90....
A measure of length, containing one-third of a yard, or twelve inches. See Ell. Figuratively, it signifies the conclusion, the end, as, the foot of th...
estates, conveyancing. The fifth part of the conclusion of a fine. It includes the whole matter, reciting the names of the parties, day, year, and pla...
pleading. It is a maxim in law, regulating alike every form of action, that the plaintiff shall state his complaint in positive and direct terms, and ...
contracts. The act by which a creditor waits for the payment of the debt due him by the debtor, after it has become due.2. When the creditor agrees to...
The same as vi et armis. (q. v.)...
In Louisiana they are those persons whom the testator or donor cannot deprive of the porttion of his estate reserved for them by law, except in cases ...
crim. law. An offence committed by unlawfully and violently taking or keeping possession of lands and tenements, with menaces, force and, arms, and wi...
practice. A proceeding in chancery, by which the mortgagors right of redemption of the mortgaged premises is barred or foreclosed forever.2. This take...
Eng. law. A species of rent which is a premium given by the tenant at the time of taking the lease, as on the renewal of leases by ecclesiastical corp...
That which belongs to another country, that which is strange. 1 Peters, R. 343. 2. Every nation is foreign to all the rest, and the several states of ...
The name of a writ. By virtue of a foreign attachment, the property of an absent debtor is seised for the purpose of compelling an appearance, and, in...
com. law. The money of foreign nations.2. Congress have, from time to time, regulated the rates at which certain foreign coins should pass. The acts n...
evidence, remedies. A judgment rendered in a foreign state.2. In Louisiana it has been decided that a judgment rendered by a Spanish tribunal, under t...
evidence. The laws of a foreign country. They will be considered with regard to, 1. The manner in which they are to be proved. 2. Their effect when pr...
A nation totally independent of the United States of America2. The constitution authorizes congress to regulate commerce with "foreign nations." This ...
One which, if true, carries the cause out of the court where it is brought, by showing that the matter alleged is not within its jurisdiction. 2 Lill....
Aliens, persons born in another country than the United States, who have not been naturalized. 1 Pet. R. 349. Vide 8 Com. Dig. 615, and the articles A...
An officer of the court who is expelled the same, is, in the English law, said to be forejudged the court. Cunn. Dict. h. t....
The title of the presiding member of a grand jury....
By the English law, a forest is a circuit of ground properly under the kings protection, for the peaceable living and abiding of beasts of hunting and...
crim. law. Every practice or device, by act, conspiracy, words, or news, to enhance the price of victuals or other provisions. 3 Inst. 196, Bac. Ab. h...
punishment, torts. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, w...
Old law. The name of a penalty formerly incurred by a ward in chivalry, when he or she married contrary to the wishes of his or her guardian in chival...
crim. law. Forgery at common law has been held to be "the fraudulent making and alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another mans right." 4 Bl....
law of Scotl. By this is understood the act by which a father gives to a child his share of his legitime, and the latter renounces all further claim. ...
practice. The model of an instrument or legal-proceeding, containing the substance and the principal terms, to be used in accordance with the laws, or...
English law. When a person is so poor that he cannot bear the charges of suing at law or in equity, upon making oath that he is not worth five pounds,...
The conditions which must be observed in making contracts, and the words which the law gives to be used in order to render them valid, it also signifi...
old English law. The writ of formedon is nearly obsolete, it having been superseded by the writ of ejectment. Upon an alienation of the tenant in tail...
A recovery in a former action.2. It is a general rule, that in a real or personal action, a judgment unreversed, whether it be by confession, verdict ...
A book of forms or precedents for matters of law, the form....
crim. law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of an unmarried person with another, whether the latter be married or unmarried. When the party is married, t...
Taken before hand. This word is sometimes, though but seldom, used in leases and conveyances, implying an exception or reservation. Forprise, in anoth...
When a thing is to be done forthwith, it seems that it must be performed as soon as by reasonable exertion, confined to that object, it may be done. T...
An epithet for any conclusion or inference, which is much stronger than another. "If it be so, in a feoffment passing a new right, a fortiori, much mo...
A term in the civil law to denote that which happens by a cause which cannot be resisted. Louis. Code, art. 2522, No. 7. Or it is that which neither o...
This term signifies jurisdiction, a court of justice, a tribunal.2. The French divide it into for exterieur, which is the authority which human justic...
contracts. A person who receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensation from the...
Eng. law. A ditch full of water, where formerly women who had committed a felony were drowned, the grave. Cowel, Int....
This word, in the English law, is taken in two senses, fundatio incipiens, and fundatio perficiens. As to its political capacity, an act of incorporat...
A new-born child, abandoned by, its parents, who are unknown. The settlement of, such a child is in the place where found....
English law. A French word, which means to fork. Formerly, when an action was brought against two, who, being jointly concerned, mere not bound to ans...
A part of any thing broken. A combination of numbers, in arithmetic and algebra, representing one or more parts of a unit or integer. Thus, four-fifth...
com. law. The name of a French coin. Five franc pieces, when not of less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weigh...
This word has several significations: 1. It is a right reserved to the people by the constitution, hence we say, the elective franchise, to designate ...
Formerly, in England, every alien was known by this name, as Franks is the generic name of foreigners in the Turkish dominions....
The privilege of sending and receiving letters, through the mails, free of postage.2. This privilege is granted to various officers, not for their own...
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