In old English law. Portioned off. A son was sald to be forisfamiliated (fortefamiliari) if hie 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
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
