Forfeit
Definition of Forfeit
For´feit | n. | 1. | Injury; wrong; mischief. | | 2. | A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. | | 3. | Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; - whence the game of forfeits. | | a. | 1. | Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. | | v. t. | 1. | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. | | 2. | To fail to keep an obligation.I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. - Shak. | | p. p. | 1. | In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. |
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