[f. FORTH adv. + COMING vbl. sb.1]
1. A coming forth; esp. † appearance in court.
1533. More, Apol., xxxvii. Wks. 903/1. He woulde neuer since complaine of his harmes to the kyng or his counsayl, but wyl rather of perfeccion suffer them all paciently, then to pursew and proue them with his forth comming againe.
1591. Child Marriages (1897), 149. Richard Wilson vndertaketh for the furth-coming of Robert Kirks.
1640. Order of Lords, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 127. The Lords ordered him to give 10000l. Bail for his forth-coming.
1703. J. Logan, in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem., IX. 224. Take security of them for their … forthcoming when called for.
1822–34. Good, Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 353. He had notice of their [i.e., the worms’] forth-coming by a sense of heat in the urinary canal.
1856. C. J. Andersson, Lake Ngami, 362. My other wagons, which I had ordered to take the Kuisip route, had not yet arrived…. Whilst abiding their forthcoming, I busied myself in mapping the country, and exploring the neighborhood.
2. Sc. Law. See quot. 1861 and cf. FORTHCOMING ppl. a. 1 b.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 36. Whether the suit be brought against the debtor himself, or against his representative, in forthcomings, in poindings of the ground, in mails and duties, and in all possessory actions.
1861. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scotl., Forthcoming; is the action by which an arrestment is made available to the arrester.
1886. Act 49 Vict., c. 23 § 3. Such winding up shall … be equivalent to an arrestment in execution and decree of forthcoming.
