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 | | Forum, from the Latin foris, for out of doors, in Roman antiquity, any open place used, like the Greek agora, for the transaction of mercantile, judicial or political business, sometimes merely as a promenade. |
 | | In addition to the Forum Romanum, the Fora of Caesar and Augustus belonged to the former class; the Forum boarium (cattle), holitorium (vegetable), piscarium (fish), pistori-um (bread), vinarium (wine), to the latter. |
 | | In legal phraseology, which distinguishes the forum commune from the forum privilegiatum, and the forum generale from the forum speciale, the word is practically equivalent to court or jurisdiction. |
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