Law Dictionary Definitions

forestaller,n.1. A person who forestalls. 2.Hist. One guilty of the offense of forestalling. See FORESTALL(5). [Blacks Law 8th]

“[A] growing town in England might have placed a higher value on grain than a neighboring town with a static population, yet traditional patterns of business might continue to send the same amount of grain to both towns. A forestaller would bid against the traditional buyer in the smaller town, obtain the grain, and resell…

forestall (for-stawl), vb. 1. To prevent (an event, result, etc.).2.Hist. To intercept or obstruct (as a person on a royal highway).3.Hist. To prevent (a tenant) from coming on the premises. 4.Hist. To intercept (as a deer reentering a forest).5.Hist. To buy (goods) for the purpose of reselling at a higher price. • At common law,…

forest,n. Hist. A tract of land, not necessarily wooded, reserved to the king or a grantee for hunting deer and other game. [Blacks Law 8th]

foreseeable damages.See DAMAGES. [Blacks Law 8th]

foreseeability,n. The quality of being reasonably anticipatable. • Foreseeability, along with actual causation, is an element of proximate cause in tort law. — foreseeable,adj. [Blacks Law 8th]

foreperson. See presiding juror under JUROR.[Blacks Law 8th]

forensic services.Hist. In feudal law, the payment of extraordinary aids or the rendition of extraordinary military services.[Blacks Law 8th]

forensic pathology.The specific branch of medicine that establishes or interprets evidence dealing with diseases and disorders of the body, esp. those that cause death. [Blacks Law 8th]

forensis (f<<schwa>>-ren-sis), adj.[fr. Latin forum “court”] Roman law. Of or relating to a court of law. • An advocate, for example, was sometimes known as a homo forensis. [Blacks Law 8th]