Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FORGERY

FORISJUDICATUS

written Instrument for the purpose of fraud and deceit. 2 Bast, P. C. 852. The false making an instrument which purports on its face to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud any person or persons. 1 Leach, 366. The thing itself, so falsely made, imitated, or forged; especially a forged writing. A forgtd signature is frequently said to be "a forgery. " In the law of evidence. The fabrication or counterfeiting of evidence. The artful and fraudulent manipulation of physical ob jects, or the deceitful arrangement of genu ine facts or things, in such a manner as to crpate an erroneous impression or a false in ference in the minds of those who may ob serve them. See Burnll, Circ. Ev. 131, 420. FORGERY ACT, 1870. The statute 33 & 34 Viet. c. 58, was passed for the punish ment of forgers of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1861. Mozley & Whitley. FORHERDA. In old records. A herd land, headland, or foreland. Cowell. FORI DISPUTATIONES. In the civil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1 Kent, Comm. 530. FORINSECUM MANERIUM. A hat part of a manor which lies without the town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Paroch. Antiq. 351. FORINSECUM SERVITITJM. The payment of extraordinary aid. Kennett, Gloss. FORINSECUS. Lat. Foreign; exte rior; outside; extraordinary. Servitium fo rinsecum, the payment of aid, scutage, and other extraordinary military services. Forin secum maneriurn, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside the bars or town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Cow ell; Blount; Jacob; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 273. FORINSIC. In old English law. Ex terior; foreign; extraoidinary In feudal law, the terra "forinsic services" compre hended the payment of extraordinary aids or the rendition of extraordinary military serv ices, and in this sense was opposed to "in trinsic services." 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 273. FORIS. Abroad; out of doors; on the •ntside of a place; without; extrinsic. FORISBANITUS. Banished. In old IJnglish law.

FORISFACERE. Lat. To forfeit: to lose an estate or other property on account of some criminal or illegal act. To confis cate. To act beyond the law, i. e., to transgress or infringe the law; to commit an offense or wrong; to do any act against or beyond the law. See Co. Litt. 59a; Du Cange; Spel man. Forisfacere, i. e., extra legem seu con suetudinem facere. Co. Litt. 59. Foris facere, i. e., to do something beyond law or custom. FORISFACTUM. Forfeited. Bona fo risfacta, forfeited goods. 1 Bl. Comm. 299. A crime. Du Cange; Spelman. FORISFACTURA. A crime or offense through which property is forfeited. A fine or punishment in money. Forfeiture. The loss of property or life in consequence of crime. Forisfactura plena. A forfeiture of all a man's property. Things which were for feited. Du Cange, Spelman. FORISFACTUS. A criminal. One who has forfeited his life by commission of a cap ital offense. Spelman. Forisfactus servus. A slave who has been a free man, but has forfeited his freedom by crime. Du Cange. FORISFAMILIARE. In old English and Scotch law. Literally, to put out of a family, (forts familiamponere.) To portion i off a son, so that he could have no further j claim upon his father. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 3. I To emancipate, or free from paternal au thority. FORISFAMILIATED. In old English law. Portioned off. A son was said to be forisfamiliated {forisfamiliari) if his father assigned him part of his land, and gave him seisin thereof, and did this at the request or with the free consent of the son himself, who expressed himself satisfied with such portion. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 42, 110. FORISFAMILIATUS. In old English law. Put out of a family; portioned off; emancipated; forisfamiliated. Bract, fol. 64. FORISJUDICATIO. In old English law. Forejudges A forejudgment. A judg ment of court whereby a man is put out of possession of a thing. Co. Litt. 1006. FORISJUDICATUS. Forejudged; sert from court; banished. Deprived of a thing

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