The introduction to a subject in a book. It is before the main text. If the author wrote it its called a preface. It may have some changes in it […]

A process where an exporter sells to a BANK or specialized financial institution a PORTFOLIO of discounted longterm ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE or PROMISSORY NOTES (generally backed by guarantees from the importer

In old English law . The taking of provisions from any person in fairs ormarkets before the royal purveyors were served with necessaries for the sovereign.Cowell. Also the seizing and […]

To lose an estate, a franchise, or other property belonging to one, by theact of the law, and as a consequence of some misfeasance , negligence , or omission.Cassell v. […]

Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture for non-user, neglect, crime, etc.

Financing where an exporter is given cash up front to get payment in a high risk situation or country. Exporters do this to ensure payment.

1. A punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments , whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they […]

Cash payment or complying by its beneficiary to a guarantee based on a guarantee agreement’s terms.

A quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob.

To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing iu imitation of another thing,with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving anddefrauding by the use of tlie […]

In criminal law . The falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which, ifgenuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or tlie foundation of a legal […]

Commercial crime insurance. Forgery protection for an insured’s account in case a forged or illegally modified is used to get money from that account.

Forming a specific, wanted shape during the manufacturing process from molten meta. Subsequent hammering, pressing, rolling, or squeezing are additional operations that can be used to get the final shape.

In old records. A herd- land, headland, or foreland. Cowell.

In the civil law . Discussions or arguments before a court. 1Kent, Comm. 530.

Lat Foreign; exterior; outside; extraordinary . Scrvitium fo- rinsccum,the payment of aid, sc-utage, and other extraordinary military services. Fo- rinsccummanerium, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside […]

In old English law . Exterior ; foreign; extraordinary . In feudal law, theterm “forinsic services” comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or therendition of extraordinary military services, and in […]

Lat. Abroad ; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic.

In old English law . Ranished.

A criminal. One who has forfeited his life by commission of a capital offense. Spelman.

Lat To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of somecriminal or illegal act. To confiscate.To act beyond the law, i. e., to transgress or infringe the […]

Forfeited. Bona fo- risfacta, forfeited goods. 1 RI. Comm. 299. A crime. Du Cange; Spelman.

A crime or offense through which property is forfeited.A fine or punishment In money.Forfeiture. The loss of property or life in consequence of crime.

In old English and Scotch law. Literally, to put out of a family,(Joris familiam ponere.) To portion off a son, so that he could have no further claimupon his father. […]

In old English law . Portioned off. A son was said to beforisfamiliated (forisfamiliari) if his father assigned him part of his land, and gave himseisin thereof, and did this […]