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FOR 
Sure her offence 
Mud be of fuch unnatural degree, 
That monitors it; or your Jcrevouch'd affefticn 
Fall’n into taint. Shakefpeare. 
FO'REWARD, f. The van ; the front.—They that 
marched in the foreward were all mighty men. i Mac. 
ix. ii. 
Tc FOREWA'RN; v. a. To adrrtonifh,beforehand.— 
I will forewarn you whom you dial! fear: fear him which, 
after he hath killed, hatli power to cad into hell. Luke 
xii. 5.—To inform previoully of any future event: 
Divine interpreter, by favour fent 
Down from the empyrean, to forewarn 
Us timely of what might elfe have been our lofs. Milton. 
To caution againd any thing beforehand.—Well I will arm 
me, being thus forewarn d. Shakefpeare. 
Young Chortebus, who by love was led 
To win renown and fair CalFandra’s bed. 
Had lately brought his troops to Priam’s aid; 
Forewarn'd in vain by the prophetic maid. Dry den. 
“ Forewarn’d, forearm’d.”—The Latins fay, Pr&- 
monitus, prezmunitus. The French, Un averti en vaut deux. 
The Germans, Vorwarnung bringt vorbereitfehaft .— The 
defign of this proverb is to excite all men to care, cau¬ 
tion, and timely forecad, in the conduft and management 
of their affairs. 
To FOREWA'STE, or Forwastk, v. a. To defolate; 
to dedroy. Out of ufe : 
Vefpafian, with great fpoil and rage } 
Forezuafed all, until Gemiffa gefit 
Perfuaded him to ceafe. Spenfer. 
To FOREWEA'RY, or Forweary, v. a. To difpi- 
rit with labour: 
By your toil 
And labour long, through which ye hither came, 
Ye both forewearied be : therefore a while - 
1 read you red, and to your bowers recoil. Spenfer. 
FO'RE-WIND,y. A wind that blows a veffel right For¬ 
ward in its courfe. — A fore-wind is the fubdance of his 
creede, and frefli water the burden of his prayers. Over¬ 
bury. 
To FbREWI'SH, v. a. To defire beforehand.—The 
wifer fort ceafed not to what in them lay, to procure that 
the good commonly forewifned might in time come to ef¬ 
fect. Knolles. 
FOREWO'RN, part. Worn out; waded by time or 
ufe.—Neither the light was enough to read the words, 
and the ink was already foreworn , and in many places 
blotted. Sidney. 
FOREYA'RD,/! A fea term, the yard belonging to 
the foremad. 
FOR'FAR, a county of Scotland, for particulars of 
which fee Angus. 
FOR'FAR, a town of Scotland, and capital of the 
county of Angus: with a eonfiderable linen manufac¬ 
ture : neat it is a hollow, where formerly witches were 
burned, on being found guilty : twenty-three miles north- 
cad of Perth, and forty-two north of Edinburgh. 
FOR'FEIT, f. [forfait, French; ffoffed, Welfh.] 
Something lod by the commiffion of a crime ; fomething 
paid for expiation of a crime ; a fine ; a muift : 
Thy life, Melantius! I am come to take, 
Of which foul treafon does a forfeit make. Waller. 
A perfon obnoxious to punidiment ; one v.hofe life is 
forfeited by his offence.—Claudio, whom here you have 
warrant to execute, is no greater forfeit to the law than 
Angelo, who hath fentenced him. Shakefpeare. 
To FOR'FEiT, v. a. To lofe by fome breach of con¬ 
dition; to lofe by fome offence:—Men difpleafed God, 
and coiifcquentiy forfeited all right to happinefs, Boyle . 
FOR 
If then a man, on light conditions, gain 
A great edate to him, and his, forever; 
Jf wilfully he forfeit it again, 
Who both bemoan his heir, or blame the giver? Davies. 
FOR'FEIT, part. adj. Liable to penal feizure; alien¬ 
ated by a crime ; lod either as to the right or poffdTion, 
by breach of conditions : 
Methought with wond’rous eafe he fwallow’d down 
TIis forfeit honour, to betray the town. Dryden. 
How the murd’rer payed his forfeit breath ; 
What lands fo didant from that feene of death, 
But trembling heard the fame! Pope. 
FOR'FEITABLE, adj. Poffeffed on conditions, by 
the breach of which any thing may be lod. 
FOR'FEITURE, f. [ forjaiture , Fr.] The aft of for¬ 
feiting; the punidiment difeharged by lofs of fomething 
podeffed. The thing forfeited; a muift; a fine.—He 
has a forfeiture inctirr’d. Swft. 
FOR'FEITURE, f. in law, is defined by Blackdcne 
to be a punidiment annexed by the datute to fome illegal 
aft or negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, or 
hereditaments : whereby he lofes all his intered therein, 
and they go to the party injured, as a recompence for 
the wrong, which either lie alone, or the public together 
with him, hath fudained. 2 Comm. 267. Lands, tene¬ 
ments, and hereditaments, may be forfeited in various 
degrees, and by various means. Forfeitiires may there¬ 
fore be divided into civil, and criminal. 
Civil forfeitures arife either by alienation contrary to 
law; as in mortmain, or to aliens, or by particular te¬ 
nants when they are greater than the law entitles them 
to make. This latter alienation diveds the remainder or 
reverfion, and is alfo a forfeiture to him wliofe right is 
attacked thereby. 1 Injl. 251. Forfeiture in civil cafes 
may alfo accrue by non-prefentation to a benefice ; by 
fimony, by non-performance of conditions, by wade, or 
by breach of copyhold cudom. 
As to alienations by particular tenants; if tenant for 
his own life aliens, by feodinent or fine, for the life of 
another, or in tail, or in fee ; thefe being edates, which 
either mud or may lad longer than his own, the creating 
them is not only beyond his power, and inconddent with 
the nature of his intered, but is alfo a forfeiture of his 
own particular edate to him in remainder or reverfion. 
Lilt. 415. The fame law holds alfo with refpeft to ail 
tenants of the mere freehold, or of chattel intereds : but 
if tenant in tail aliens in fee, this is no immediate for¬ 
feiture to the remainder-man, but a mere difcontinuance 
of the edate-tail, which the iffue may afterwards avoid 
by due courfe of law : for lie in. remainder or reverfion 
hath only a very remote, and barely poffible, intered 
therein, until the iffue in tail is extinft. But in cafe of 
fuch forfeitures, by particular tenants, all legal edates 
by them before created, (as if tenant for twenty years 
grants a leafe for fifteen,) and all charges by them law¬ 
fully made on the lands diall be good and available in 
the law. For the law w ill not punifli an innocent lefiee 
for the fault of his leffor; nor permit the leffor, after lie 
lias granted a good and lawful edate, by his own aft to 
avoid it, and defeat the intered which he himfelf hath 
created. 1 Inf. 233. 2 Comm. 275. 
If tenant for l,ife, in dower, by the curtefy, or after 
poilibility of iffue extinft, or leflee for years, tenant by 
datute-merchant, daple, or elegit, of lands or tenements 
that lie in livery, fhall make any abfolufe or conditional 
feoffment in fee, gift in tail, leafe for any orher life than 
his own, &c. or levy a fine fir conufance de droit come ceo, 
&c. or fuder a common recovery thereof: or being im¬ 
pleaded in a writ of right brought againd him, join the 
mfe upon tiie mere right, or admit the reverfion to be in 
another ; or in a quid juris clamat, claim the fee-fimple ;• 
or if leffee for years being otided, bring an adife ut de 
libero tenmento , 6?c. by either of thefe things, there will 
