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Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle..

Fourfeitable :: Fourfeitable (a.) Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.

Confiscate :: Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.

Condemn :: Condemn (v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned..

Condemnation :: Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture..

Capitally :: Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally..

Forfeiting :: Forfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forfei.

Confiscate :: Confiscate (a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

Innocent :: Innocent (a.) Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation..

Condemned :: Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

Guilt :: Guilt (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Injury; wrong; mischief.

Caducary :: Caducary (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Tender :: Tender (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest..

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine..

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