- Royal purveyors. 26 Exeter and Lancaster, (Brand. For. Att. 1; see Edw. III. c. 5. FORE-HAND RENTS, or FINES. - A species of rent, the payment of which is generally stipulated for by a covenant in the lease. It is sometimes called a "fore-gift," or "income," but more commonly a "fine." It is a premium given by a lessee at the time of taking his lease, and has been considered as an improved rent. Woodf. Land. & T. (10 edit.) 336-339. Bract. 36 a. FOREIGN.-LATIN: foras, out of; LowLATIN: foraneus; NORMAN-FRENCH: foreyn (Littre . Forain; 1 Diez. 192.) "Foreign," translated forinsecus by our early law writers, e. g. servitia forinseca, &c., In law, (1) that which is strange, extrinsic, or irrelevant; (2) that which is out of a certain State, country, county, liberty, manor, jurisdiction, &c. "Foreign matter triable in another county." (Pl. Cor. 154; Kitch. Courts 126.) "Foreign plea is a refusal of the judge as incompetent, because the matter in hand is not within his precincts," i. e. jurisdiction. (Kitch. 75; Termes de la Ley, s. v.; Britt. 22b.) Thus, in the law of divorce, "foreign" means anywhere out of the country or State, and "foreigner" means one who is not domiciled in the country. (Yelverton v. Yelverton, 1 Swab. & T. 586.) As to foreign law, see FACT, §2. As to foreign judgments, see JUDGMENT. As to foreign services, see SERVICE. As to foreign bills of exchange, see BILL OF EXCHANGE, 29. See, also, DENIZEN; FOREIGN ATTACHMENT; FORFEITURE; STATE. FOREIGN ANSWER.-In old English practice, an answer which was not triable in the county where it was made. (Stat. 15 Hen. VI. c. 5.)-Blount. FOREIGN APPOSER. -See APPOSER, FOREIGN ASSIGNMENT. - An assignment made in a foreign country, or in another State. 2 Kent Com. 405 et seq. FOREIGN ATTACHMENT. - 1. Etymology and history. -The citizens of London had a prompt remedy by arrest against all persons within the city, whether they were citizens or foreigners, ("foreigners from Termes de la Ley, s. v. Foreign,) if an action of debt is brought in the Mayor's Court, and the defendant makes default in appearing to the action, and it appears that he has nothing within the city whereby he may be summoned, the court may, on the plaintiff alleging that some person within the city has property belonging to the defendant in his possession, attach the property to compel the defendant to appear. The attachment is effected by warning the person in whose possession the property is, not to part with it without the further order of the court. This person is then called the garnishee. If the defendant still makes default in appearing, the garnishee is required to show cause why the plaintiff should not have execution of the property attached, and, in default of cause being shown, the plaintiff obtains execution, first giving security to restore the property to the defendant if he should, within a year and a day, come into court and disprove the debt alleged in the action. (See PLEDGES TO RESTORE; SCIRE FACIAS.) What the plaintiff receives by the execution operates as a satisfaction (wholly or pro tanto) of the debt due to him from the defendant. 3. Where the property attached is money belonging to the defendant, the judgment is final, but in the case of goods the judgment is interlocutory, and is called judgment of appraisement because it directs the goods to be appraised (i. e. valued) by the serjeant at mace, in order that the defendant may be credited with their value, and when this is done final judgment is signed and execution issued. Brand. For. Att. 91. 4. Theoretically, the primary object of the process of foreign attachment is to compel the defendant to appear, and, therefore, if the defendant appears according to the custom, as by giving bail, paying money into court, &c., (see APPEARANCE,) the attachment is dissolved or at an end. In practice, however, the proceeding by foreign attachment is used principally for the purpose of taking the defendant's property in satisfaction of the debt. Hence, it has become usual to make the record in a proceeding by foreign attachment recite a number of steps which are purely fictitious, e. g. a return by the sheriff that the defendant has nothing within the city whereby he may be summoned, a "solemn calling" of the defendant, his default, &c., &c. "All this is recited in the record as occurring at one and the same court. No specific time is necessary to elapse, but immediately the action is entered and the plaintiff makes a satisfactory affidavit of his debt, he is at liberty to issue the attachment" (Id. 9), which is a command of the court to the sheriff to attach the property. The sheriff accordingly serves on the garnishee an "attachment paper," or notice not to part with the property. After the fictitious