v. Civil and Sc. Law. Pa. pple. Sc. 7 -at, 9 -ate. [f. ppl. stem of med.L. forisfamiliāre, f. foris outside + familia family.] (See quots.)
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Table, 80. Forisfamiliat the sonne is be the father, quhen the father giues to him ane certaine part of his heretage, and he is content therewith.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law, I. (1809), 110. A child who gets a separate stock from the father for carrying on any trade or employment, even though he should continue in the father’s house, may be said to be emancipated or forisfamiliated, in so far as concerns that stock.
1879. W. E. Hearn, Aryan Househ., 132. A son was said to be foris-familiated if his father assigned to him part of his land, and gave him seisin thereof, and did this at the request, or with the free consent of the son himself, who expressed himself satisfied with such portion.
1880. J. Skelton, Crookit Meg, xiii. 157. The lasses are a’ forisfamiliate.
