FOURCHER

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

  FOURCHER, English law. A French word, which means to fork. Formerly, when an 
  action was brought against two, who, being jointly concerned, mere not bound 
  to answer till both appeared, and they agreed not to appear both in one day; 
  the appearance of one, excused the other's default, who had a day given him 
  to appear with the other: the defaulter, on the day appointed, appeared; but 
  the first then made default; in this wanner they forked each other, and 


  practiced this for delay. Vide 2 Inst. 250; Booth, R. A. 16.