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

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

Forfeiter :: Forfeiter (n.) One who incurs a penalty of 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..

Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Tender :: Tender (v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt..

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..

Confiscable :: Confiscable (a.) Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

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

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..

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

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