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

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..

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

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

Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act..

Condemnation :: Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Caducary :: Caducary (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation..

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

Forfalture :: Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.

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

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

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

Defeasanced :: Defeasanced (a.) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

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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