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FOREJE'ARS, f. A fea term. The jears belonging nor appeals, it is faid a foreign iflue therein muft dill her 
Jo the forefail. tried by the jury of the county wherein alleged. 
FO'REIGN, adj. [ forain , Fr. forano, Span, from forts, 2 Hawk. P.C. c. 40. In a foreign plea in a civil action 
Lat.] Not of this country ; not domeftic.—The parties the defendant ought to plead to that place where the 
and divisions amongft us may feveral ways bring dedruc- plaintiff alleges the matter to be done in his declaration ; 
tion upon our country, at the fame time that our united 
force would fecure 11s again]!: all the attempts of a foreign 
enemy. Addifon.—AUen ; remote ; not allied ; not be¬ 
longing ; without relation. It is often ufed with to ; but 
more properly with from. —This delign is not foreign from 
fome peoples thoughts. Swift. 
I mud didemble, 
And fpeak a language foreign to my heart. Addifon. 
Excluded; not admitted ; held at a difiance : 
They will not flick to fay you envied him ; 
And fearing he would rife, he was fo virtuous, 
Kept him a foreign man dill ; which fo griev’d him, 
That he ran mad and died. Shakefpeare. 
[In law'.] A foreign plea, placitum forinfecum ; as being a 
plea out of the proper court of judice. Extraneous; ad¬ 
ventitious in genertd : 
There are, who, fondly dudious of increafe, 
Rich foreign mould in their ill-natur’d land 
Induce. • Phillips. 
FOREIGN DOMI'NION, that which belongs to the 
perfon of the king by hereditary defcent, by purchafe, or 
other acquifition, as his majed-y’s property in Germany. 
Thefe do not in any wife appertain to the crown of thefe 
kingdoms, for they are entirely unconnedted with the 
laws of England, and do not communicate with this na¬ 
tion in any refpecl whatfoever. The Englilh legiflature, 
warned by pad experience, wifely inferted in the ad! of 
fettlement, which veded the crown in the prefent fa¬ 
mily, the following claufe, “ That in cafe the crown and 
imperial dignity of this realm (hall hereafter come to 
any perfon not being a native of this kingdom of Eng¬ 
land, this nation (hall not be obliged to engage in any 
war for the defence of any dominions or territories which 
do not belong to the crown of England, without confent 
of parliament.” n & 13 Will. III. c. 3. 
FO'REIGN KING'DOM, a date or didridl under the 
dominion of a foreign prince. If tw>o of the king’s fub- 
jects fight in a foreign kingdom, and one of them is killed, 
it cannot be tried here by the common law : but it may 
be tried and determined in the court of the condable and 
mardral, according to the civil law ; or the fa 61 may be 
examined by the privy council, and tried by commiflioners 
appointed by the king in any county of England, by 
33 Hen. VIII. c, 23. One Hutchinfon killed Mr. Colfori 
in Portugal, for which he was tried there and acquitted, 
the exemplification of which acquittal he produced under 
the great feal of that kingdom ; and the king being wil¬ 
ling'he fliould be tried‘here, referred it to the judges, 
who all agreed, that the party being already acquitted by 
the laws of Portugal, could not be tried again for the 
fame fad! here. 3AVA7S5. 
FOREIGN OPPOSER, or Apposer. See Exche¬ 
quer. > 
FOREIGN PLEA, in law, a plea in objedlion to a 
judge, where he is refufed as incompetent to try the 
matter in queftion, becaufe it arifes out of his jurifdic- 
tion. 4. Hen. VIII. c. 2. If a plea of iffuable matter is 
alleged in a different county from that wherein the party 
is indidted or appealed, by the common law, Inch pleats 
can only be tried by juries returned from the counties 
wherein they are alleged. But by 23 Hen. VII. c. 14, all 
foreign pleas triable by the country, upon an indidlment 
for petit treafon, murder, or felony, diall be forthwith 
tried without delay, before the fame juftices before whom 
the party fliall be arraigned, and by the jurors of the 
• fame county where he is arraigned, notw ithdanding the 
matter of the pleas is alleged to be in any other county 
or counties; though as this itatute extends not to treafon, 
and the defendant may plead a foreign plea whether the 
matter is tranlitory, or not tranfitory ; but in the lafl cafe 
he muff fwear to it. 2 Ntlf. 871. When a foreign plea 
is pleaded, the court generally makes the defendant put 
it upon oath, that it is true; or will enter up judgment 
for want of a plea. 5 Mod. 335. Foreign anfw'er is fiich 
an anfwer as is not triable in the county where made ; 
and foreign matter is that matter which is done in another 
county, &c. 
FOREIGN SE'AMEN, ferving two years on board 
Britidi fiiips, whether of war, trade, or privateers, during 
the time of war, fliall be deemed natural.born fubjecls. 
FOREIGN SER'VICE, in law, is that whereby a 
mefne lord holds of another, without the compafs of his 
own fee ; or that which the,tenant performs either to his 
own lord, or to the lord paramount out of the fee. 
Kitch. 299. Brail, lib. 2. c. 16. 
Felonies in ferving foreign dates, are redrained and pu- • 
nidied by 3 Jac. I. c. 4 ; which makes it felony for any 
perfon whatever to go out of the realm, to ferve any 
foreign prince or date, without having fird taken the 
oath of allegiance before his departure. And it is felony 
alfo for any gentleman, or perfon of higher degree, or 
who hath borne office in the army, to go out of the realm 
to ferve fitch foreign prince or date, without previoufly 
entering into a bond with two fureties, not to be recon¬ 
ciled to the fee of Rome, or enter into any confpiracy 
againd his natural fovereign. By 9 Geo. II. c. 30, en¬ 
forced by 29 Geo. II. c. 17, if any fnbjedl of Great Bri¬ 
tain diall enlid himfelf, or if any perfon diall procure 
him to be enlided, in any foreign fervice, or detain or em¬ 
bark him for that purpofe without licence under the 
king’s dgn manual, he diall be guilty of felony without 
benefit of clergy; but, if the perfon fo feduced fhall 
within fifteen days difeover his feducer, lie diall on con- 
vidlion of the feducer be indemnified. By 29 Geo. II- 
c. 17, it is enadled that to ferve under the French king, 
as a military officer, diall be felony without benefit of 
clergy : and to enter into the Scotcli brigade in the 
Dutch fervice without previoudy taking the oaths of al¬ 
legiance and abjuration diall incur a forfeiture of five 
hundred pounds. 
FOR'EIGNER, f. A man that comes from anotlic* 
country; not a native; a dranger.—Water is the only 
native of England made ufe of in punch ; but the le¬ 
mons, the brandy, the fugar, and the nutmegs, are all 
foreigners. Addifon. 
Joy is fuch a foreigner , 
So. meer a dranger to my thoughts, I know 
Not how to entertain him. Denham. 
FOR'EIGNNESS, f. Remotenefs ; want of relation- 
to foniething.—Let no the foreignmfs of the fubjedl hin¬ 
der you from endeavouring to fet me right. 
To FORE-IM A'GINE, v. a. To conceive or fancy be¬ 
fore proof.—We are within compafs of a fore-imagined 
podibility in that behalf. Camden. 
FOREI'RO (Francis), a learned Portuguefe dominicaa 
monk, a native of Lifbon, greatly patronifed by John III. 
king of Portugal, who fent him to dudy at the univerdty 
of Paris. He became a perfedl mader of the Latin, 
Greek, and Hebrew, languages ; the latter of which he 
was taught by the learned Angelo Catiini, and lie drew 
up a dictionary of it for his own ufe. On his return 
home in 1540, he undertook the education of Anthony 
prior of Crato, and in a diort time became the mod cele¬ 
brated preacher in Portugal, la 1561, the king fent him 
as a divine to the council of Trent, where lie acquired 
the admiration of the fathers by his excellent pulpit ta-. 
lents. In 1562, he publiflied,- at Venice, in folio, a Latin 
v.ediQQ. 
