foci

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Slowly she crept along by the fori, or platforms, to the farther side of the vessel, and, pausing, bent low over the deep; the cool spray dashed upward on her feverish brow.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Like the rest of us, who are so far beneath M. Littré in grasp and in weight of authority, he was subject to the idola fori, the illusions of the market-place. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

It is precisely similar to the case of a contract to which the lex loci gives the construction, and the lex fori its execution.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

Apostolicæ Sedis Moderationi convenit which appeared to revive the privilegium fori.

From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.