The remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also the jointure of a wife. Jacob
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An ancient custom in Ire-land, in which persons put away their children to fosterers. Fostering was held to*be a stronger alliance than blood, and the foster children participated in the fortunes of their foster fathers. Mozley & whitley
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A dyke, ditch, or trench; a place inclosed by a ditch; a moat; a canal
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In old English iaw. The duty levied on the Inhabitants for repairing the moat or ditch round a fortified town
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MERCHANT, or FOR-WARDER. one who receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a coin-pensation from the owners, having no concern in the vessels or wagons by which they are transported, and no interest in the freight, and not being deemed a common carrier, but a mere warehouseman and agent. Story, Bailm. $$ 502, 500. Schloss v. wood, 11 Colo. 287, 17 Pac. 910; Ackley v. Kellogg, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) 224; Place v. Union Exp. Co., 2 IIilt. (N. Y.) 19; Bush’v. Miller, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 488
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In tbe oivil law. A ditch; a receptacle of water, made by hand. Dig. 43, 14, 1, 5
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Lat. A court of justice, or judiclal tribunal; a place of jurisdictlon ; a place where a remedy is sought; a place of litigation. 3 Story. 347
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In land law’s and conveyancing, In those regions where grants, transfers, and deeds are made with reference to tlie subdl-vislons of the government survey, this term means forty acres of land in the form of a square, being the tract obtained by quarter-ing a section of land (640 acres) and again quartering one of the quarters. Lente v. Clarke, 22 Fla. 515, 1 South. 149
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In old Engllsh forest law. The court of attachment iu for-ests, or wood-mote court
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In English lnw. Persons pretending or professing to tell for-tunes, and punishable as rogues and vaga-bonds or disorderly persons. 4 Bl. Comm. 62
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In old English law. A tournament or fighting with spears, and an appeal to fortune therein
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Accidental; undesigned; adventitious. Resulting from unavoidable physical causes
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A place or port of some streugth; a little fort, old Nat. Brev. 45
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In French law. Accidental; fortuitous. Cos fortuit, a fortuitous event. Fartuitmcnt, accidentally; by chance
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Lat Strong. Fortis et sana, strong and sound; staunch and strong; as a vessel. Townsh. 1*1. 227
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In old English law. A fortified place; a castle; a bulwark. Coweli; 11 Hen. VII. c. 18
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Lat. Stronger. A term ap-plled, in the latv of evidence, to that specles of presumption, arising from facts shown in evidence, which is strong enough to shift the burden of proof to the opposite party. Bur-rill, Circ. Ev. 64, 66
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As soon as, by reason-able exertion, confined to the object, a thing 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 doue “forthwith,” it means that the act is to be done within a reasonable time. 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 164; Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co., 176 U. S. 181, 20 Sup. Ct. 311, 44 L. Ed. 423.; Faivre v. Manderscheld, 117 Iowa, 724, 90 N. W. 76; Martin v. Pifer, 96 Ind. 248
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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 aldlng or counseling in any way, or coinmandlng the act to be done. Bract fols. 138, 138b. According to Lord Coke, fortia was a word of art, and properly signified the furnishing of a weapon of force to do tbe fact, and by force whereof the fact was com-mitted, and he that furnished it was not pres-ent when the fact was done. 2 Inst. 182. —Fortia frisca. Fresh force, (q. c
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