KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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FORESTALLING THE MARKET

FOREIGNER

"Jurisdiction," "Jury," "Minister,* "Plea," "Port," "State," "Vessel," and "Voyage," see those titles. FOREIGNER. In old English law, this term, when used with reference to a particu lar city, designated any person who was not 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. For the distinctions, in Spanish law, be tween "domiciliated" and "transient" for eigners, see Yates v. lams, 10 Tex. 168. FOREIN. An old form of foreign, (g. v.) 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 judg ment by which a man is deprived or put out of a thing; & judgment of expulsion or banish ment. FOREMAN. The presiding member of a grand or petit jury, who speaks or answers for the jury. FORENSIC. Belonging to courts of jus tice. FORENSIC MEDICINE, or medical ju risprudence, 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 form, foresaids. 2 How. State Tr. 715. Forsaidis occurs in old Scotch records. "The

Loirdis assesouris forsaidis." 1 Pitc. Grim. Tr. pt 1, p. 107. FORESCHOKE. Foresaken; disavowed, 10 Edw. II. c. 1. FORESHORE. That part of the land ad jacent to the sea which is alternately covered and left dry by the ordinary flow of the tides; t. e., by the medium line between the greatest and least range of tide, (spring tides and neap tides.) Sweet FOREST. In old English law. A certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pas tures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest chase, and warren, to rest and abide in the safe protection of the prince for his princely delight and pleasure, having a pecul iar court and officers. Manw. For. Laws, c 1, no. 1; Termes de la Ley; 1 Bl. Comm. 289. A royal hunting-ground which lost its pe culiar character with the extinction of its courts, or when the franchise passed into the hands of a subject. Spelman; Cowell. The word is also used to signify a franchise or right being the right of keeping, for the purpose of hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren, in a ter ritory or precinct of woody ground or pasture set apart for the purpose. 1 Steph. Comm. 665. —Forest courts. In English law. Courts in stituted for the government of the king's .forest in different parts of the kingdom, and for the punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer or venison, to the vert or greensward, and to the covert in which such deer were lodged. They consisted of the courts of attachments, of regard, of sweinmote, and of justice-seat; but in later times these courts are no longer held. 3 Bl. Comm. 71.—Forest law. The system or body of old law relating to the royal forests. —Forestage. A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. Cowell.—Forester. A sworn officer of the forest, appointed by the king's letters patent to walk the forest, watch ing both the vert and the venison, attaching and presenting all trespassers against them within their own bailiwick or walk. These letters pat ent were generally granted during good be havior; but sometimes they held the office in fee. Blount. FORESTAGITJM. A duty or tribute pay able to the king's foresters. Cowell. FORESTALL. To intercept or obstruct a passenger on the king's highway. Cowell. To beset the way of a tenant so as to prevent his coming on the premises. 3 Bl. Comm. 170. To intercept a deer on his way to the forest before he can regain it Cowell. —Forestaller. In old English law. Obstruc tion; hindrance;' the offense of stopping the highway; the hindering a tenant from coming to his land; intercepting a deer before it can regain the forest. Also one who forestalls; one who commits the offense of forestalling. 3 Bl. Comm. 170; Cowell.—Forestalling. Obstruct ing the highway. Intercepting a person on the highway. FORESTALLING THE MARKET, The act of the buying or contracting for any mer-