Definition of Forfeitures

1. Noun. (plural of forfeiture) ¹

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Definition of Forfeitures

1. forfeiture [n] - See also: forfeiture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forfeitures

forfaltures
forfare
forfault
forfaults
forfeit
forfeitability
forfeitable
forfeited
forfeiter
forfeiters
forfeiting
forfeits
forfeiture
forfeiture fund
forfeiture funds
forfeitures
forfend
forfended
forfending
forfends
forfered
forfete
forfeted
forfetes
forfeting
forfex
forfexes
forficate
forficula
forfight

Literary usage of Forfeitures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1907)
"Of forfeitures. §1 440-458. When equity will relieve against forfeitures. I 450. ... Relief against forfeitures arising from covenants in leases. I 455. ..."

2. The history of England from the accession of James the second by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1877)
"In the year 1690 a Bill had been brought in for applying the Irish forfeitures to the public service. That Bill passed the Commons, and would probably, ..."

3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"An act to provide for mitigating and remitting the forfeitures, penalties and ... Suits for fines, penalties, and forfeitures : An act to regulate the ..."

4. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"Thus it stands on the general state of these kind of forfeitures. But what equitable circumstances are there peculiar to this case? ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Forfeitures.—The next branch of the king's ordinary revenue consists in ... The particulars of these forfeitures will be more properly recited when we treat ..."

6. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"CONCERNING Forfeitures BY TREASON. HAVING gone thro the several treasons declared by this statute, I shall now proceed to what follows in this statute, ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"lowed by the judge, as provided in section 1113 of the Penal Code of 1910, this insolvent cost will be paid out of the fines and forfeitures fund as other ..."

8. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Equity will never compel a discovery in aid of penalties of forfeitures, unless the right to such penalties or forfeitures is waived by the person seeking ..."

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