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Definition of forfeit

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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..

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Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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 (v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Forfalture :: Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.

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

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

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