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FORFEITURE

Categories: Criminal Law

Definition (1910 Edition)

in the owner of lands, tenements, or heredita: ments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured a8 a recy ompense for the wrong which he alone, or the public together with himself, hath sustained. 2 Bl. Comm. 267.. Wiseman v. Me nulty, 25 Cal. 237.

times when its importation was prohibited, to be proclaimed each term in the exchequer.— Forfeitures abolition act. Another name for the felony act of 1870, abolishing forfeitures for felony in England.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain. UK commentary and modern updates are original additions. This entry is for educational reference only and does not constitute legal advice.