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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.

liff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.

ispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture. I pray thee have me excused. xiv. 19.

An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.

Forfeiture. [Obs.]

n or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Nor without gages to the needy lend. Sandys.

Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture. A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade. Kent.

g in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.

Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent.

Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.

The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture. Burrill.

obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed. Chaucer.

glect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton.

heir profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives. South.

art with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite d…

To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.

ifficulty. One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits. Hazlitt.

A not using; failure to use. An office may be forfeited by misuser or nonuser. Blackstone.

t to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

s not to bear arms against one's captors, to return to custody, or the like. This man had forfeited his military parole. Macaulay.