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FORECLOSE

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To shut out; to bar. Used of the process of destroying an equity of redemption existing in a mortgagor. … [Read more...]

FOREIGN JURISDICTION

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A jurisdiction beyong the borders of the current place, e.g. another county, another state or another country. … [Read more...]

FORECLOSURE

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A process in chancery by which all further right existing in a mortgagor to redeem the estate is defeated and lost to him, and the estate becomes the absolute property of the mortgagee; being applicable when the mortgagor has forfeited his estate by non-payment of the money due on the mortgage at the time appointed, but still retains the equity of redemption. 2 Washb. Real … [Read more...]

FOREIGN LAW

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By foreign laws are understood the laws of a foreign country. The states of the American Union are for some purposes foreign to each other, and the laws of each are foreign in the others. See Foreign laws. … [Read more...]

FORBARRER

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L. Fr. To bar out; to preclude; hence, to estop. … [Read more...]

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