Definition of forfeit

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Forfeit (n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

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Confiscable :: Confiscable (a.) Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.
Condemned :: Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation..
Irritancy :: Irritancy (n.) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.
Deodand :: Deodand (n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand..
Defeasanced :: Defeasanced (a.) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance..
Own :: Own (v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love..
Capitally :: Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally..
Escheat :: Escheat (v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by 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..
Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.
Abandum :: Abandum (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.
Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by 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..
Forfeiter :: Forfeiter (n.) One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
Gage :: Gage (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
Escheat :: Escheat (v. t.) To forfeit.
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..
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