FORPRISE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FORPRISE. Taken before hand. This word is sometimes, though but seldom, used 
  in leases and conveyances, implying an exception or reservation. Forprise, 
  in another sense, is taken for any exaction. Cunn. Dict. h.t.