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Forfarshire, Scotland. Map of the east coast county which includes the old 

 district of Angus 



Tytler, the dialect poet, who and forfeit the lease. Courts of 

 edited the second and third edi- equity, however, would always and 



tions of The Encyclopaedia Britan- 

 nica, and who was born at Brechin. 

 Thomas Dick, writer and lecturer 

 on popular science, was born at 

 Dundee and died at Broughty 

 Ferry. James Mill, the utilitarian 

 philosopher, was born at North- 

 water Bridge, Logie Pert, and 

 Sir Charles Lyell at Kinnordy, 

 near Kirriemuir. At Kirriemuir 

 itself was born Sir James M. 

 Barrie, who has made his birth- 

 place famous as Thrums. 



Forfeiture (late Lat. forisfac- 

 tum, something done outside). De- 

 privation of lands, goods, or other 

 property, usually in consequence 

 of a sentence passed by a court 

 of law, or some breach of the 

 law. In English law a person con- 

 victed of felony, treason, felo de 

 se, and certain other offences, in- 

 cluding striking a judge, forfeited 

 all his lands and goods to the 

 crown. This was. abolished by the 

 Forfeiture Act, 1870. At common 

 law, also, an illegal conveyance of 

 land, e.g. to an alien, before the 

 Naturalisation Act, 1870, or to a 

 corporation in mortmain, was 

 similarly punished. 



The most common instance of 

 forfeiture is in the case of lease- 

 holds. Leases very generally con- 

 tain conditions that if the tenant 

 shall not pay his rent, or perform 

 the convenant of the lease, e.g. to 

 keep the premises in repair, the 

 landlord may re-enter the premises 



still do relieve against the for- 

 feiture, and allow the tenant to 

 keep his lease if he comes and 

 offers to make good his default 

 and repay the landlord any ex- 

 pense he has been put to. On 

 breach of any covenant, except a 

 covenant for payment of rent or a 

 covenant not to assign or underlet, 

 a landlord cannot begin proceed- 

 ings to enforce a forfeiture without 

 giving the tenant notice to make 

 good the breach. No notice is re- 

 quired or relief given where there 

 is condition for forfeiture on the 

 tenant's bankruptcy. 



Forge (Lat. fabrica, workshop). 

 In metallurgy, term with a wide 

 meaning. It covers the simple 

 hearth of the blacksmith, early fur- 

 naces suchastheCatalanforge^.v.), 

 in which malleable iron was pro- 

 duced in Europe for a long period, 

 and the modern extensive plant 

 comprising furnaces, cranes, ham- 

 mers, rolling mills, presses, engines, 

 or motors and boilers, which make 

 up a modern iron-manufacturing 

 works, it always relates, however, 

 to the working of iron from a crude 

 or semi-manufactured form, to a 

 higher order, as distingirshed from 

 melting and casting. See Iron; 

 Metallurgy; Steel. 



Forgery (Lat. fabricari, to 

 frame). English law term for 

 making or altering a written in- 

 strument which purports to be 

 valid on the face of it, with intent 



to defraud. The common notion 

 that forgery always consists in 

 signing a false name, or imitating 

 somebody's signature, is wrong. 

 Thus, to alter the date or amount 

 on a cheque, account, or receipt, 

 though the signature is genuine, is 

 forgery, if the alteration be made 

 with intent to defraud. On the 

 other hand, merely to subscribe a 

 false name on a note or cheque may 

 not be forgery at all if there is no 

 fraudulent intent. The law on 

 the subject is dealt with by the 

 Forgery Act, 1913. 



Forget-Me-TTot. Hardy peren- 

 nial plant of the natural order 

 Boraginaceae, genus Myosotis. Na- 



Forget-Me-Not. Leaves and flowers 

 of the perennial plant 



tives of Britain, their height is 

 from 7 ins. to 18 ins. ; the flowers are 

 blue and yellow. Several culti- 

 vated varieties are raised from seed 

 planted out of doors in spring, and 

 transplanted to their permanent 

 positions in the autumn, when 

 they will flower in the spring and 

 summer of the following and suc- 

 cessive years. The best position 

 is a moist corner of the rock garden. 

 The well-known blue variety is M . 

 palustris, which, though found 

 naturally by the sides of brooks 

 and streams, will thrive equally 

 well in the garden as an edging, or 

 in small beds or borders in moist 

 peaty soil. A rarer natural spe- 

 cies is M . palustris alba, which has 

 white flowers. 



Forget-Me-Not. Drama by 

 Herman Merivale and F. C. Grove. 

 It was produced at The Lyceum, 

 Aug. 21, 1879, by Genevieve Ward, 

 who acted in the piece all over 

 the world. 



Forging. Production of articles 

 of iron or steel or other metal by 

 hammering, pressing, rolling, or 

 otherwise shaping the metal while 

 headed but not in a molten condi- 

 tion. It is distinguished from cast- 

 ing by the fact that the metal is 

 never raised to a temperature 

 sufficiently high to melt it. 



It is almost certainly the most 

 ancient branch of the whole art 

 of metallurgy, and was first prac- 

 tised by primitive man in shaping 



