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

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

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

Fourfeitable :: Fourfeitable (a.) Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Gage :: Gage (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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