Legal Term Dictionary

In English law. Rent payable in advance; or, more properly, a species of premium or bonus paid by the tenant on the making of the lease, and particularly on the renewal of leases by ecclesiastical corporations.

In English law. Rent payable in advance; or, more properly, a species of premium or bonus paid by the tenant on the making of the lease, and particularly on the renewal of leases by ecclesiastical corporations. Less...

Belonging to another nation or country; belonging or attached to another jurisdiction; made, done, or rendered in another state or jurisdiction; subject to another jurisdiction; operating or solvable in another territory; extrinsic; outside; extraordinary. -Foreign answer. In old English practice. An answer which was not triable in the county where More...

Belonging to another nation or country; belonging or attached to another jurisdiction; made, done, or rendered in another state or jurisdiction; subject to another jurisdiction; operating or solvable in another territory; extrinsic; outside; extraordinary. -Foreign answer. In old English practice. An answer which was not triable in the county where it was made. (St 15 Hen. VI. c 5.) Biount-Foreign apposer. An officer in the exchequer who examines the sheriff's estreats, comparing them with the records, and apposeth (interrogates) the sheriff what he says to each particular sum therein. 4 Inst 107; Blount; Cowell.-Foreign bought and sold. A custom in London which, being found prejudicial to sellers of cattle in Smitbfield, was abolished. Wharton.-Foreign coins- Coins issued as money under the authority of a foreign government As to their valuation in the United States, see Rev. St U. S. ss 3564, 3565 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, pp. 2375, 2376).-Foreign courts. The courts of a foreign state or nation. In the United States, this term is frequently applied to the courts of one of the states when their judgments or records are introduced in the courts of another.-Foreign Dominion. In English law this means a country which at one time formed part of the dominions of a foreign state or potentate, but which by conquest or cession has become a part of the dominions of the British crown. " 5 Best & S. 290.-Foreign enlistment aot. The statute 59 Geo. III. c. 69, prohibiting the enlistment, as a soldier or sailor, in any foreign service. 4 Steph. Comm. 226. A later and more stringent act is that of 33 A 34 Vict c. 90.-Foreign exchange. Drafts drawn on a foreign state or country.-Foreign-going ship. By the English merchant shipping act 1854, (17 A 18 Vict, c 104,) I 2, any ship employed in trading, going between some place or places in the United Kingdom and some place or places situate beyond the following limit*, that is to sav: The coasts of the United Kingdom, the islands of Guernsey. Jersey, Sark, Alderney, and Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe antf Brest, inclusive. Home-trade ship includes every ship employed in trading and going between places within the last-mentioned limits.-Foreign matter. In old practice. Matter triable or done in another county. Cowell.-Foreign office. The department of state through which the English sovereign communicates with foreign powers. A secretary of state is at its head Till the middle of the last century, the functions of a secretary of state as to foreign and home questions were not disunited.-Foreign service, in feudal law. was that whereby a mesne lord held of another, without the compass of his own fee, or that which the tenant performed either to his own lord or to the lord paramount out of the fee. (Kitch. 299.) Foreign service seems also to be used for knight's service, or escuage uncertain. (Perk. 650.) Jacob. As to foreign "Administrator," "Assignment" "Attachment" "Bill of Exchange," "Charity," ?'Commerce," "Corporation," "County," "Creditor," "Divorce," "Document" "Domicile," "Factor," "Judgment" "Jurisdiction," "Jury," "Minister," "Plea," "Port," "State," "Vessel," and "Voyage," see those titles. Less...

In old English law, this term, when used with reference to a particular city, designated any person who was not an inhabitant of that city. According to later usage, it denotes a person who is not a citizen or subject of the state or country of which mention is made, More...

In old English law, this term, when used with reference to a particular city, designated any person who was not an inhabitant of that city. According to later usage, it denotes a person who is not a citizen or subject of the state or country of which mention is made, or any one owing allegiance to a foreign state or sovereign. For the distinctions, in Spanish law, between "domiciliated" and "transient" foreigners, see Yates v. lams, 10 Tex. 108. Less...

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

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

In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some offense or misconduct When an officer or attorney of a court was expelled for any offense, or for not appearing to an action by bill filed against him, he was said to be forejudged the court. CowelL To More...

In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some offense or misconduct When an officer or attorney of a court was expelled for any offense, or for not appearing to an action by bill filed against him, he was said to be forejudged the court. CowelL To deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court To condemn to lose a thing. To expel or banish. -Forejudge*. In English practice. A judgment by which a man is deprived or put out of a thing; a judgment of expulsion or banishment. . Less...

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

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

Belonging to courts of justice.

Belonging to courts of justice. Less...

or medical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is "that science which teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes of the law; hence its limits are, on the one hand, the requirements of the law, and, on the other, the whole range of medicine. Anatomy, More...

or medical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is "that science which teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes of the law; hence its limits are, on the one hand, the requirements of the law, and, on the other, the whole range of medicine. Anatomy, physiology, medicine, surgery, chemistry, physics, and botany lend their aid as necessity arises; and in some cases all these branches of science are required to enable a court of law to arrive at a proper conclusion on a contested question affecting life or property." Tayl. Med Jur. 1. Less...

In the civil law. Belonging to or connected with a court; forensic. Forensis homo, an advocate; a pleader of causes; one who practices in court Calvin. In old Scotch, law. A strange man or stranger; an out-dwelling man; an "unfree-man," who dwells not within burgh.

In the civil law. Belonging to or connected with a court; forensic. Forensis homo, an advocate; a pleader of causes; one who practices in court Calvin. In old Scotch, law. A strange man or stranger; an out-dwelling man; an "unfree-man," who dwells not within burgh. Less...

is used in Scotch law as aforesaid Is in English, and sometimes, in a plural form, foresaids. 2 How. Stote Tr. 715. Forsoidis occurs in old Scotch records. "The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis." 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 107.

is used in Scotch law as aforesaid Is in English, and sometimes, in a plural form, foresaids. 2 How. Stote Tr. 715. Forsoidis occurs in old Scotch records. "The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis." 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 107. Less...