Felony is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FELONY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a grave crime
• a crime regarded in the US and many other judicial systems as more serious than a misdemeanour
• serious crime
• An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
• 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.
• A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
• a serious crime (such as murder or arson)

Words related to FELONY

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How to use FELONY in a sentence

• He would even give up the colony, which should refuse to make the wilful murder of a slave felony.
• In favour of either husband or wife on conviction for felony.
• All friendly dealing with natives was to be punished as felony.
• He was accordingly carried before a meeting of justices, and by them committed to the county gaol, to take his trial for the felony at the next assizes.
• The persecution to which I was exposed was founded upon the supposition of my having committed felony to an immense amount.
• On being admitted, they told me that they were officers of the police, and that they had a warrant to arrest me on a charge of felony.
• By not pleading he intended to protect the inheritance of his children, which, as he had been informed, would by a conviction of felony have been forfeit to the crown.
• Should he pursue the subject upon this basis, he will not be the first gentleman who has surrendered his convictions and compounded a culinary felony upon favorable terms.
• They carried off children and domestic animals, generally leaving vile creatures resembling the children or animals carried away, so as to prevent the felony being discovered.
• It was also provided that persons prosecuted under this act should be obliged to plead forthwith, as in cases of felony, and not be permitted to delay their trial.
• When they discovered that he had been found guilty of felony and condemned to be executed they were grievously disappointed.
• Both must be at night, but not necessarily on the same night, provided that in the breaking and in the entry there is an intent to commit a felony.
• The hero is a young American, who, to save his family from poverty, deliberately commits a felony.
• Coming into the United States some years after, he was arrested under a charge of homicide committed in this act, and was held to trial as for a private felony.
• Your charge therefore is to inquire whether she be guilty of the felony and murder whereof she stands indicted, or not guilty.
• If you find her guilty you shall inquire what goods or chattels, lands or tenements she had at the time of the felony committed, or at any time since.
• XVIII CRIMINAL LAW AND POLICE There is no very general tendency toward new legislation in matters of felony, and many States are still content to remain with the common law.
• Sir, said Sir Launcelot, here is a great mischief befallen by felony, and by forecast treason, that your sister is thus shamefully slain.
• Then Sir Sadok rode upon his way unto a castle that was called Liones, and there he espied of the treason and felony of King Mark.
• But as to you, Sir Gawaine, if that ye come there, I pray you charge me not with treason nor felony, for an ye do, I must answer you.
• And I want you to pass a bill through that Legislature to make it a felony for a widow to marry again.
• In Europe, French was the language of commerce, and also of felony.
• The actual participation in a rebellion or the actual commission of a felony does not amount to disfranchisement.
• Of these, twenty-nine millions, let us say, are never consciously tempted to commit a felony.
• So severe were these laws that it was often impossible for a laborer to stop work without committing a felony.

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