Forfeiture is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORFEITURE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of forfeiting
• the loss or giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing
• The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.
• That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
• something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
• a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of forfeiting; the loss of property or money because of a breach of a legal obligation

Words related to FORFEITURE

forfeitures17

Words that contain FORFEITURE

forfeitures17 nonforfeiture19 nonforfeitures20

How to use FORFEITURE in a sentence

• It has drawn little from taxes or forfeiture, although it has been aided by the appropriation of both public and private property of the United States.
• No stranger could cart goods within a particular part of the city without being subjected to a forfeiture of four shillings or two oxen to the bishop.
• Nothing, my lords, can be more moderate or tender than such an address, by which no punishment is inflicted, nor any forfeiture exacted.
• For the sake of enforcing the law, and for the sake of controlling the future condition of the smuggled slaves, forfeiture was imperative.
• Corporations are often convicted, and punished by fines, or by a forfeiture of all corporate rights.
• They were condemned to imprisonment and forfeiture.
• The peers pronounced sentence of banishment and forfeiture against both the elder and the younger Hugh.
• The forfeiture of his father still kept him out of Barnard Castle and the other Balliol lands in England.
• Meantime Latimer and Lyons were condemned to forfeiture and imprisonment.
• The angel warned him ere he departed that the speedy forfeiture of throne and life would be the penalty for disregarding the divine injunction.
• Having forfeited the allowance Oscar got Robert Ross to ask his wife to continue it and in spite of the forfeiture Mrs.
• One of the enacted clauses forbade a plough to be yoked on Christmas Day, on pain of the forfeiture and public sale of the cattle that drew the plough.
• Had we insisted on any penalty or forfeiture by way of satisfaction to our insulted rights, it would have belonged to us, not to a third party.
• The Frenchman petitioned the Assembly, who passed a law deciding the question of forfeiture in his favor.
• The forfeiture upon the penal statutes was reduced to the term of three years.
• Lord Lorne, son of Argyle, having ever preserved his loyalty, obtained a gift of the forfeiture.
• William, instigated by his niece, as well as by his rapacious courtiers, who longed for so rich a forfeiture, ordered him to be tried, condemned, and executed.
• Disobedience to any part of the code was punishable by suspension of papers and forfeiture of the right to blast off.
• Sin is treason, involving therefore the forfeiture of all that is held of God.
• He is the symbol of industry which, if steadily faced, leads to fortune, but, if lost sight of, is followed by its forfeiture.
• If the conduct of a lodge has been such as clearly to forfeit its charter, the Grand Lodge alone can decide that question and pronounce the forfeiture.
• Judgments of forfeiture were obtained in the courts.
• These vessels were taken into a port of Alaska, where they were subjected to forfeiture, and the masters and mates fined and imprisoned.
• And he required vs vpon forfeiture of our bandes, that we should doe our endeuour to get her foorth.
• It is bound, therefore, to restrain them from this as from other crimes, and any violation of the Sabbath, by any corporation, should work immediate forfeiture of its charter.
• And that none presume to do any thing to the contrary upon pain of our displeasure, and the forfeiture of thirty ducats for each offence.
• Offenses that may be committed by individuals should not work a forfeiture of the rights of whole communities.
• She had led me to follow her, and my forfeiture had been sealed by that stolen interview at the Armstrongs’.
• The forfeiture even of your favor, if by such a declaration I could forfeit it, though the first object of my ambition, never will make me disguise my sentiments on this subject.
• But it is far from easy to determine what special acts, or what special neglect of action, shall subject corporations to a forfeiture.
• On the other hand, it is undoubtedly true that every subordinate corporate right ought to be subject to control, to superior direction, and even to forfeiture upon just cause.
• It is besides to be remarked, that, if, in virtue of a legal process, a forfeiture should be adjudged, the court of law has no power to modify or mitigate.
• What is usury? What is the forfeiture for taking usury in this state? Chapter LXII.

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