Law Dictionary Definitions

forisfamiliation.Scots law. The liberation of a child from the father’s tutelage, as when a child under the age of majority left home, was given seisin in a part of the father’s land, or accepted something as a settled inheritance. Cf. EMANCIPATION(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

forisfamiliated (for-is-f<<schwa>>-mil-ee-ay-tid), adj. Hist. (Of a son) emancipated from paternal authority and in possession of a portion of family land in lieu of inheritance. “If our English law at any time knew an enduring patria potestas which could be likened to the Roman, that time had passed away long before the days of Bracton…. Bracton,…

forisfamiliate (for-is-f<<schwa>>-mil-ee-ayt), vb. [fr. Latin foris “outside” + familia “family”] Hist. To emancipate (a son) from paternal authority by a gift of land. • This act usu. rendered the son ineligible to inherit more property. — Also termed (archaically) forisfamiliare. [Blacks Law 8th]

forisfactus servus (for-is-fak-t<<schwa>>s s<<schwa>>r-v<<schwa>>s). [Law Latin] Hist. A freed slave who has forfeited his or her freedom by committing a crime. [Blacks Law 8th]

forisfactus (for-is-fak-t<<schwa>>s). [Law Latin] Hist. A criminal; esp., one who has forfeited his or her life by committing a capital offense. [Blacks Law 8th]

forisfactum (for-is-fak-t<<schwa>>m), adj.[Law Latin] Hist. (Of property) forfeited. [Blacks Law 8th]

forisfacere (for-is-fay-s<<schwa>>-ree), vb. [fr. Latin foris “without” + facere “to make”] Hist. 1.To forfeit (an estate or other property). • Literally, this means to make the property foreign to oneself. 2. To violate the law; to do a thing against or without the law. [Blacks Law 8th]

forisbannire (for-is-b<<schwa>>-nI-ree), vb. [Law Latin “to banish”] Hist. To expel from a certain territory; to banish. [Blacks Law 8th]

forisbanitus (for-is-ban-<<schwa>>-t<<schwa>>s). See FORBANNITUS. [Blacks Law 8th]

foris (for-is), adj.[Latin] Abroad; outdoors; without. [Blacks Law 8th]