Foreign or external in origin; coming from outside, especially used in Scottish legal tradition.
From Latin 'extra' (outside) + 'foraneous' (foreign, from 'foris' meaning outdoors/foreign). This rare term appears mainly in historical Scottish and English legal documents from medieval times.
This Scottish legal term distinguishes between property that belongs to the kingdom itself versus extraforaneous lands under foreign control—it shaped how medieval Britain thought about national borders!
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