Income tax form for taxpayers. … [Read more...]
FORISFACERE
Lat. To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of some criminal or illegal act. To confiscate. 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 thet law. See Co. Litt. 59a; Du Cange; Spelman. Forisfacere, 1. c, extra legem con consuetudinem facere. Co. Litt. 59. Forisfacere, i. e, to … [Read more...]
FORM INTERROGATORIES
A standard set of questions that a party may use when it questions an opposing party or witnesses in a lawsuit. Typically they cover the most common issues of a certain type of case, e.g. landlord tenant, auto accident, etc. … [Read more...]
FORFANG
In old English law.. The taking of provisions from any person in fairs or markets before the royal purveyors were served with necessaries for the sovereign. Cowell. Also the seizing and rescuing of stolen or strayed cattle from the hands of a thief, or of those having illegal possession of them; also the reward fixed for such rescue. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]