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

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

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..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

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

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

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

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

Escheat :: Escheat (v. t.) To forfeit.

Forfalture :: Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

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..

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

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