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Forfeiture   /fˈɔrfətʃər/   Listen
Forfeiture

noun
1.
Something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty.  Synonym: forfeit.
2.
A penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something.  Synonym: forfeit.
3.
The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc..  Synonyms: forfeit, sacrifice.






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"Forfeiture" Quotes from Famous Books



... against individuals, which were punished with the death penalty. Wilful murder, poisoning, and parricide were capitally punished. Adultery was punished by banishment, besides a forfeiture of considerable property; Constantine made it a capital offence. Rape was punished with death and confiscation of goods, as in England till a late period, when transportation for life became the penalty. The punishments inflicted for forgery, coining base money, and perjury ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord

... covenant in a license does not work a forfeiture of the license unless it is so expressly agreed. (Consol. Middlings Purifier Co. vs. Wolf, ...
— Practical Pointers for Patentees • Franklin Cresee

... employed about ecclesiastical matters, are of their own nature and essentially civil, he punisheth externally idolaters, blasphemers, sacrilegious persons, heretics, profaners of holy things, and according to the nature and measure of the sin he condemneth to death or banishment, forfeiture of goods, or imprisonment; he guardeth and underproppeth ecclesiastical canons with civil authority, giveth a place of habitation to the church in his territory, restraineth or expelleth the insolent and untamed disturbers ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie

... importation of slaves. The advisability of preventing the importation of bondmen had been foreseen in Kentucky from the experience of the mother State of Virginia which had enacted a stringent law in 1778 imposing a penalty of one thousand pounds and the forfeiture of the slave upon the importer of any into that commonwealth. The ninth article of the Kentucky Constitution of 1792 had provided that the legislature "shall have full power to prevent slaves being brought into this commonwealth as merchandise; they shall have full power to prevent ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

... adding of ment, ance, ence, ure, or age: as, punish, punishment; abate, abatement; repent, repentance; condole, condolence; forfeit, forfeiture; stow, stowage; equip, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


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