† forfangforfengn.
Obsolete.
1. Anglo-Saxon Law. A rescuing of stolen property; the reward for this.
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a1000 Laws Ine liii Be forstolenes monnes forefenge.
a1000 Laws Æthelst. vi Forfang..æt men fiftene peningas.
2. By post-Conquest lawyers explained (perhaps by conjecture based on the etymology) to mean: The fine for taking provisions from a market before the royal purveyors were served.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > other fines
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c1250 Gloss. Law Terms in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 33 Forfeng, quite de avant prise (avent le rei).
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