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  • FORSPECA
    In old English law. Prolocutor; paranymphus.
  • FORSTAL
    See FORESTALL. Forstellarins est panperun depressor et to tins oommunitatis ot patriae pub-liens inimions. 3 Inst 196. A forestaller Is an oppressor of the poor, and a public enemy of the whole community and country.
  • FORSWEAR
    In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue This term is wider in its scope than "perjury," for the latter, as a technical term, includes the idea of the oath being taken before a competent court or officer, and relating to a material More...
  • FORT
    This term means "something inore than a mere military camp, post, or station. The term implies a fortification, or a place protected from attack by some such means as a moat wall, or parapet." U. S. v. Tichenor (C. C.) 12 Fed. 424.
  • FORTALICE
    A fortress or place of strength, which anciently did not pass without a special grant 11 Hen. VII. c. 18.
  • FORTALITIUM
    In old Scotch law. A fortalice; a castle. Properly a house or tower which has a battlement or a ditch or moat about it.
  • FORTHCOMING
    In Scotch law. The action by which an arrestment (garnishment) is made effectual. It is a decree or process by which the creditor is given the right to demand that the sum arrested be applied for payment of his claim. 2 Karnes, Eq. 288, 289; .Bell.
  • FORTHCOMING BOND
    A bond given to a sheriff who has levied on property, conditioned that the property shall be forthcoming, i. e., produced, when required. On the giving of such bond, the goods are allowed to remain in the possession of the debtor. Hill v. Manser, 11 Grat (Va.) 522; Nichols v. More...
  • FORTHWITH
    As soon as, by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, a thlnp may be done. Thus, when a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty-four hours. When a statute enacts that an act Is to be done "forthwith," it means that the act is to be More...
  • FORTIA
    Force. In old English law. Force used by an accessary, to enable the principal to commit a crime, as by binding or holding a person while another killed him, or by aiding or counseling in any way, or commanding the act to be done. Bract fols. 138, 138b. According to More...
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