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

Forfalture :: Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.

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

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..

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..

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

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

Capital :: Capital (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment..

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

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

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Own :: Own (v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love..

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