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Foreign attachment
(gcide) | Foreign \For"eign\, a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr.
L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores
doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose,
Forfeit, Forest, Forum.]
1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign
country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." --Milton.
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2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or
belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or
locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
"Domestic and foreign writers." --Atterbury.
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Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
--Milton.
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3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected;
not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not
harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or
from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
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This design is not foreign from some people's
thoughts. --Swift.
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4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
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Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. --Shak.
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Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property
of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the
satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an
attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor
in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States
trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee
process. --Kent. --Tomlins. --Cowell.
Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in
another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is
one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter,
as well as in several other points of view, the different
States of the United States are foreign to each other. See
Exchange, n., 4. --Kent. --Story.
Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of
the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced
from without.
Foreign office, that department of the government of Great
Britain which has charge British interests in foreign
countries.
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Syn: Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous;
extrinsic.
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FOREIGN ATTACHMENT
(bouvier) | FOREIGN ATTACHMENT. The name of a writ. By virtue of a foreign attachment,
the property of an absent debtor is seised for the purpose of compelling an
appearance, and, in default of that, to pay the claim of the plaintiff. Vide
Attachment.
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Foreign attachment
(gcide) | Foreign \For"eign\, a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr.
L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores
doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose,
Forfeit, Forest, Forum.]
1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign
country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." --Milton.
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2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or
belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or
locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
"Domestic and foreign writers." --Atterbury.
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Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
--Milton.
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3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected;
not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not
harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or
from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
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This design is not foreign from some people's
thoughts. --Swift.
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4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
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Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. --Shak.
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Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property
of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the
satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an
attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor
in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States
trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee
process. --Kent. --Tomlins. --Cowell.
Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in
another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is
one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter,
as well as in several other points of view, the different
States of the United States are foreign to each other. See
Exchange, n., 4. --Kent. --Story.
Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of
the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced
from without.
Foreign office, that department of the government of Great
Britain which has charge British interests in foreign
countries.
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Syn: Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous;
extrinsic.
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process of foreign attachment
(gcide) | Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law)
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to
be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals,
or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for
the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the
effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
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Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may
attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the
hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the
process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or
factorizing process. [U. S.]
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