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Philopena :: Philopena (n.) A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself..

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..

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

Confiscation :: Confiscation (n.) The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use..

Penalty :: Penalty (n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine..

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

Remission :: Remission (n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc..

Abandum :: Abandum (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.

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

Handyy-dandy :: Handyy-dandy (n.) A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..

Defeasanced :: Defeasanced (a.) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

Forfeited :: Forfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Forfei.

Felony :: Felony (n.) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt..

Irritancy :: Irritancy (n.) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

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..

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture..

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

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