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Forum : (noun)
1: a public meeting or assembly for open discussion
2: a public facility to meet for open discussion [syn: assembly,
meeting place]
3: a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece [syn: agora,
public square]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Forum : \Fo"rum\, n.; pl. E. Forums, L. Fora. [L.; akin to
foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.]
1. A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were
judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and
decide causes.
He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the
senate than in the forum. --Brougham.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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FORUM. This term signifies jurisdiction, a court of justice, a tribunal.
2. The French divide it into for exterieur, which is the authority
which human justice exercises on persons and property, to a greater or
lesser extent, according to the quality of those to whom it is entrusted;
and for interieur, which is the moral sense of justice which a correct
conscience dictates. Merlin, Repert. mot For.
3. ByForum : res sitae is meant the tribunal which has authority to
decide respecting something in dispute, located within its jurisdiction;
therefore, if the matter in controversy is land, or other immovable
property, the judgment pronounced in the forum res sitae is held to be of
universal obligation, as to all matters of right and title on which it
professes to decide, in relation to such property. And the same principle
applies to all other cases of proceedings in rem, where the subject is
movable property, within the jurisdiction of the court pronouncing the
judgment. Story, Const. Laws, Sec. 532, 545, 551, 591, 592; Kaims on Eq. B.
3, c. 8, s. 4 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 541.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Forum : n. [Usenet, GEnie, CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion
group accessible through a dial-in BBS, a mailing list, or a
newsgroup (see the network). A forum functions much like a bulletin
board; users submit postings for all to read and discussion ensues.
Contrast real-time chat via talk mode or point-to-point personal
email.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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