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Meaning Of Forfeit
n.
Injury; wrong; mischief.
n.
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.
n.
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; --
whence the game of forfeits.
n.
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal
seizure.
n.
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.
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to
transgress.
v. i.
To fail to keep an obligation.
p. p. / a.
In the condition of being forfeited; subject to
alienation.