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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..

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

Capitally :: Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally..

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..

Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence..

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..

Forfalture :: Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.

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..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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