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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..

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

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..

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Guilt :: Guilt (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or 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..

Penalty :: Penalty (n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine..

Forfalture :: Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.

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

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

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

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