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2541 Etymology dictionary, p. forensic (adj.).2
… to legal trials," as in forensic medicine (1845). Related: Forensical (1580s).
2542 Etymology dictionary, p. forest (n.).3
… in legal sense "court, judgment;" in other words "land subject to a ban" [Buck]. Replaced Old English wudu (see wood (n.)). Spanish and Portuguese floresta have been influenced …
2543 Etymology dictionary, p. form (n.).3
… , "a legal agreement; terms of agreement," later "a legal document" (mid-14c.). Meaning "a document with blanks to be filled in" is from 1855. From 1590s as "systematic or …
2544 Etymology dictionary, p. franchise (n.).3
… "particular legal privilege," then "right to vote" (1790). From mid-15c. as "right to buy or sell," also "right to exclude others from buying or selling, a monopoly;" meaning …
2545 Etymology dictionary, p. fuck (v.).8
The legal barriers against use in print broke down in mid-20c. with the "Ulysses" decision (U.S., 1933) and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (U.S., 1959; U.K., 1960). The major breakthrough …
2546 Etymology dictionary, p. fuck (v.).10
… . Egyptian legal agreements from the 23rd Dynasty (749-21 B.C.E.) frequently include the phrase, "If you do not obey this decree, may a donkey copulate with you …
2547 Etymology dictionary, p. fuel (n.).2
… Latin legal term focalia "right to demand material for making fire, right of cutting fuel," from classical Latin focalia "brushwood for fuel," from neuter plural …
2548 Etymology dictionary, p. further (adj.).2
… to legally as a forther wife .
2549 Etymology dictionary, p. garnish (v.).3
… in legal sense of "to warn or serve notice of attachment of funds" (1570s). Related: Garnished; garnishing .
2550 Etymology dictionary, p. garnishment (n.).2
1550s, "embellishment, adornment, decoration," from garnish (v.) + -ment. Legal financial sense from 17c. The verbal noun garnishing also was used in the sense "ornament, that which decorates" (late 14c.).
2551 Etymology dictionary, p. garnishee (n.).2
"one who owes debts and has been warned legally to not pay money or transfer property which has been awarded to his creditor," 1620s, from garnish (v.) in the legal sense + -ee .
2552 Etymology dictionary, p. grantee (n.).2
in legal language, "person to whom a thing is granted," late 15c., from grant (v.) + -ee .
2553 Etymology dictionary, p. grantor (n.).2
in legal language, "person who makes a grant or conveyance," 1620s, from Anglo-French grantor, Old French graanter agent noun from granter "give; agree, consent; admit; permit" (see grant (v.)). Native form granter (n.) is attested from c. 1400.
2554 Etymology dictionary, p. grievous (adj.).2
c. 1300, from Anglo-French grevous (Old French grevos ) "heavy, large, weighty; hard, difficult, toilsome," from grief (see grief ). Legal term grievous bodily harm attested from 1803.
2555 Etymology dictionary, p. guardian (n.).2
… .). Specific legal sense is from 1510s. Guardian angel is from 1630s.
2556 Etymology dictionary, p. habeas corpus (n.).2
… being legally detained. From habeas, second person singular present subjunctive of habere "to have, to hold" (from PIE root *ghabh- "to give or receive") + corpus "person …
2557 Etymology dictionary, p. hang (v.).3
… in legal language (which tends to be conservative) in reference to capital punishment and in metaphors extended from it ( I'll be hanged ).
2558 Etymology dictionary, p. Hebe (1).2
c. 1600, Greek goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera, wife of Hercules, from Greek hēbē "youth, youthful prime, strength of youth" (legally, "the time before manhood," in Athens 16, in Sparta 18), from PIE *yeg-wa- "power, youth, strength."
2559 Etymology dictionary, p. heredity (n.).2
… "widow"). Legal sense of "inheritable quality or character" first recorded 1784; the modern biological sense "transmission of qualities from parents to offspring …
2560 Etymology dictionary, p. hetaera (n.).3
Typically a slave or foreign woman devoted to private or public entertainment. In Athens, where citizens could legally marry only daughters of full citizens, opposed to "lawful wife," and thus embracing everything from "concubine" to "courtesan."