Definition of forfeit

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

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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..
Confiscation :: Confiscation (n.) The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use..
Forfeited :: Forfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Forfei.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
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..
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..
Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine..
Confiscate :: Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
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 (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..
Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..
Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance..
Condemnation :: Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture..
Condemned :: Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation..
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.) Injury; wrong; mischief.
Capitally :: Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally..
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..
Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
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