Definition of forfeit

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

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Caducary :: Caducary (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation..
Condemnation :: Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture..
Forfeited :: Forfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Forfei.
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..
Defeasanced :: Defeasanced (a.) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
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..
Confiscation :: Confiscation (n.) The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use..
Irritancy :: Irritancy (n.) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.
Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
Condemned :: Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation..
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..
Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
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..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.
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..
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..
Guilt :: Guilt (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
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..
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