Lexicographical Neighbors of Forfaults
Literary usage of Forfaults
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"... be apprehended at such times and places and in such manner as the Commissioners
of Justiciary shall appoint, and forfaults all his Lands and moveables. ..."
2. The Westminster Assembly: Its History and Standards; Being the Baird Lecture by Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (1883)
"A tennent doing so to his overlord forfaults all. Who speaks for civil liberties
would never so undo them ; ye ar ..."
3. The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour by James Balfour (1824)
"... forfaults the Lord Drumond, for stricking Lyone K. of Armes with his hand;
bot ther after,. by the Lyons ..."
4. Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs: Selected from the Manuscripts of Sir by David Laing (1848)
"... The right of apparency forfaults by the 69 Aft of Parliament in 1540; and fo
the King hes right to what they might ..."
5. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1903)
"Not in hell; Where every spirit's work, by fire is tried; For there is fierce
exaction of just dues, Stern course of forfaults ..."
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