this means a country which at one time formed part of the dominions of a foreign state or potentate, but which by conquest or cession has me a per of the dominions of the British crown., 5 Best & S. a nore extlistment act. The statute 59 Geo. III. c. 68, propibisins the enlistment, as a soldier or sailor, in any foreign service. Steph. Comm. 226. A later and more stringent act is that of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 90.—Foreign exchange. Drafts drawn on a foreign state or country.—Foreign-going ship. By the English merchant shipping act, 1854, (17 & 18 Vict. c. 104,) § 2, any ship employed in trading, going between some place or places in the United Kingdom and some place or places situate beyond the following limits, that is to say: The coasts of the United oe dom, the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, Alderney, and Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest, inclusive. Home-trade ship includes every ship employed in trading and going between places within the last-mentioned limits.—Fe matter. In old practice. Matter triable or done in another county. Cowell.—Forei office. The department of state through which the English sovereign communicates with foreign powers. A secretary of state is at its head. Till the middle of the last century, the functions of a secretary of state as to foreign and home questions were not disunited—Foreign service, in feudal law, was that whereby a mesne lord held of another, without the compass of his own fee, or that which the tenant performed either to his own lord or to the lord paramount out of the fee. (Kitch. 299.) For eign service seems also to be used for Knight's vo Nate or eacuage uncertain. (Perk. 650.) Jacob.