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

Confiscation :: Confiscation (n.) The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Abandum :: Abandum (n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.

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..

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

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..

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..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..

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..

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..

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

Confiscable :: Confiscable (a.) Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

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..

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