v. Also 4–5 forjuge, (5 forjugge), 5–7 forjudge, 6–9 forejudge. [In sense 1, ad. OF. for-, fors-, fourjugier, f. for(s-, FOR- pref.3 + jugier, JUDGE v. In sense 2 the prefix seems to have been taken as FOR-1.]
1. To exclude, oust, or dispossess by a judgment. Const. from, of, or with double obj. Obs. exc. in Law.
[1292. Britton, I. xiv. § 4. Si soint il forjugez de chescune ley et hors de nostre pes.]
c. 1470. Hardyng, Chron., CXIV. xix.
| When he was depriued of his estate … | |
| Foriuged hole from [all] his magestee. |
1491. Act 7 Hen. VII., c. 16. It was enacted … that John Duke of Norfolk … shuld … be … forjuged of all honour.
a. 1577. Sir T. Smith, Commw. Eng. (1609), 90. His lands nor goods confiscate to the Prince, which in all cases of felony are commonly lost from him and his heires, if he be foreiudged, that is, condemned for a felon by the law.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 164. If an Attourney or other Officer in any Court be put out and forbidden to use the same, he is said to be forjudged the Court.
1642. trans. Perkins’ Prof. Bk., v. § 432. 186. If … the tenant bringeth a Writ of Mesne against the Mesne, and fore-judgeth him.
1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., I. 12. And for their answers of the same, given to the King upon the same questions, the same Justices were forejudged of their lives, and judgement given against them of forfaiting their Lands, Goods, and Chattels.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. 134. It is enacted by the statute 5 Edw. III. c. 9. that no man shall be forejudged of life or limb, contrary to the great charter.
1883. F. Pollock, Land Laws (1887), 25. When a man is forejudged of life and lands for cowardice in battle, as the lands held by him of a private lord go to that lord, so any book-land he may have is forfeit to the king, and, it would seem, at the king’s personal disposal.
† b. To prohibit (from). Obs.
1675. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., IV. 589. For by admitting a Restraint, the Navigation of the English into those Parts would for the future be forejudged and wholly barred.
1697. View Penal Laws, 151. For the fourth shall be forejudged from ever keeping an Inn again.
† 2. To condemn judicially (to a penalty). Obs.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 192.
| Of Alisaundre in his histoire | |
| I rede, how he a worthy knight | |
| Of sodein wrath and not of right | |
| Forjuged hath. |
1423. Jas. I, Kingis Q., iii.
| And from estate by fortune a quhile | |
| Foriugit was to pouert in exile. |
1494. Fabyan, Chron. VII. 568. [They] were takyn as prysoners in the Towre of London, and soone after foriugyd, hanged, and hedyd.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xli. 1. The greater part of men forjudge miserable folk to destruction.
1752. Carte, Hist. Eng., III. 606. She … being already condemned and forejudged to die.
Hence Forjudging vbl. sb.
1647. N. Bacon, Discourse of the Laws & Government of England, II. iii. (1682), 20. A Law was made in these times, that no Accusation, nor Attachment, nor forejudging of Life or Member, nor seisure of Lands, Tenements, Goods or Chattels, should be against the form of the Grand Charter, and Law of the Land.
