Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FORESAID

FOREIGN MATTER

an inhabitant of that city. According to lat er 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. FOREIN. An old form of foreign, (q. o.) Blount. FOREJUDGE. In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some of fense or misconduct. When an officer or at torney 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. FOREJUDGER. In English practice. A judgment by which a man is deprived or put out of a thing; a judgment of expulsion or banishment. See FOREJUDGE. FOREMAN. The presiding member of a grand or petit jury, who speaks or answers for the jury. FORENSIC. Belonging to courts of justice. FORENSIC MEDICINE, 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 ena ble a court of law to arrive at a proper con clusion on a contested question affecting life or property." Tayl. Med. Jur. 1. FORENSIS. In the civil law. Belong ing 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. FORESAID is used in Scotch law as aforesaid is in English, and sometimes, in a plural f orm t foresaids. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Forsaidis occurs I n old Scotch records. " The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis." 1 Fitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 107.

changes in, or additions to, our own laws, and in that respect are called "jus receptum." Brown. FOREIGN MATTER. In old practice. Matter triable or done in another county. Cowell. FOREIGN MINISTER. An ambassa dor, minister, or envoy from a foreign gov ernment. FOREIGN OFFICE. The department of state through which the English sovereign communicates with foreign powers. A sec retary of state is at its head. Till the middle of the last century, the functions of a secre tary of state as to foreign and home questions were not disunited. FOREIGN FLEA. A plea objecting to the jurisdiction of a judge, on the ground that he had not cognizance of the subject matter of the suit. Cowell. FOREIGN PORT. A port exclusively within the sovereignty of a foieign nation. A foreign port or place is a port or place without the United States. 19 Johns. 375. FOREIGN SERVICE, in feudal law, was that whereby a mesne lord held of an other, 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. FOREIGN STATE. A foreign country or nation. The several United States are considered "foreign" to each other except as regards their relations as common members of the Union. FOREIGN VESSEL. A vessel owned by residents in, or sailing under the flag of, a foreign nation. "Foreign vessel," under the embargo act of Jan uary, 1808, means a vessel under the flag of a for eign power, and not a vessel in which foreigners domiciled in the United States have an interest 1 Gall. 58. F O R E I G N VOYAGE. A voyage to some port or place within the territory of a foreign nation. The terminus of a voyage determines its character. If it be within the limits of aforeign jurisdiction, it is a foreign voyage, and not otherwise. 1 Story, 1. See 3 Kent, Comm. 177, note; 1 Gall. 55. FOREIGNER. In old English law, this term, when used with reference to a particu lar city, designated any person who was not

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