Testimony given by an expert witness pertaining to the use of forensic practices (usually scientific practice) in order to answer a legal question in a lawsuit, e.g. whether the defendant's DNA was found at the scene of the crime, how the conclusion was made, etc. … [Read more...]

Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture for non-user, neglect, crime, etc. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. Belonging 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. … [Read more...]

(A) When property or a privilege or right is lost as a result of a violation of law, for example, the loss of a driver's license after committing excessive moving violations. (B) punishment, torts. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they … [Read more...]

is used in Scotch law as aforesaid is in English, and sometimes, in a plural form, foresaids. 2 How. Stote Tr. 715. Forsoidis occurs in old Scotch records. "The Loirdis assesouris forsaidis." 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 107. … [Read more...]