Legal Term Dictionary

Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture for non-user, neglect, crime, etc.

Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture for non-user, neglect, crime, etc. Less...

1. A punishment annexed by law to some Illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands; tenements, or hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured aa a recr ompense for the wrong which he alone, or the public together with himself, More...

1. A punishment annexed by law to some Illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands; tenements, or hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured aa a recr ompense for the wrong which he alone, or the public together with himself, hath sustained. 2 Bl. Comm. 267. Wiseman v. Mc-nulty, 25 Cal. 237. 2. The loss of land by a tenant to his lord, as the consequence of some breach of fidelity. 1 Steph. Comm. 166. 3. The loss of lands and goods to the state, as the consequence of crime. 4 BL Comm. 381, 387 ; 4 Steph. Comm. 447, 452 ; 2 Kent^ Comm. 385; 4 Kent Comm. 420. Avery vF Everett 110 N. Y. 317, 18 N. E. 148, 1 L. R. A. 204, 6 Am. St Rep. 368." 4. The loss of goods or chattels, as a puri-ishment for some crime or misdemeanor in the party forfeiting, aud as a compensation for the offense and injury committed against him to whom they are forfeited. 2 Bl. Comm. 420. It should be noted that "forfeiture" is not an identical or convertible term with "confiscation." The latter is the consequence of the former. Forfeiture is the result which the law attaches as an immediate and necessary consequence to the illegal acts of the individual; but confiscation implies the action of the state; and property, although it may be forfeited, cannot be said to be confiscated until the government has formally claimed or taken possession of it 5. The loss of office by abuser, non-user, or refusal to exercis it 6. The loss of a corporate franchise or charter in consequence of some illegal act or of malfeasance or non-feasance. 7. The loss of the right to life, as the consequence of the commission of some crime to which the law has affixed a capital penalty. 8. The incurring a liability to pay a definite sum of money as the consequence of violating the provisions of some statute, or refusal to comply with some requirement of law. State v. Marion County Oom'rs, 85 JmL 493. 9. A thing or sum of money forfeited. Something imposed as a punishment for an offense or delinquency. The word in this sense is frequently associated with the word "penalty." Van Buren v. Digges, 11 How. 477, 13 L. Ed. 771. 10. In mining law, the loss of a mining" claim held by location on the public domain (unpatented) in consequence of the failure of the holder to make the required annual ex- penditure upon It within the time allowed. McKay v. McDougall, 25 Mont. 258, 64 Pac. 609. 87 Am. St. Rep. 395; St. John v. Kidd, 26 Cal. 271. -Forfeiture of a bond. A failure to per5-form the condition on which the obligor was to be excused from the penalty in the bond.-For* feiture of marriage. A penalty incurred by a ward in chivalry who married without the consent or against the will of the guardian*. See DUPLEX VALOR M A BIT AG IT.-Forfeiture of silk, supposed to lie in the docks, used, in times when its importation was prohibited, to be proclaimed each term in the exchequer.- Forfeitures abolition aot. Another name for the felony act of 1870, abolishing forfeitures for felony in England. Less...

A quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob.

A quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money. Jacob. Less...

To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing in imitation of another thing, with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving and defrauding by the use of the spurious article. To counterfeit or make falsely. Especially, to make a spurious written instrument with the intention of More...

To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing in imitation of another thing, with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving and defrauding by the use of the spurious article. To counterfeit or make falsely. Especially, to make a spurious written instrument with the intention of fraudulently substituting it for another, or of passing it off as genuine; or to fraudulently alter a genuine instrument to another's prejudice; or to sign another person's name to a document, with a deceitful and fraudulent intent. See In re Cross (D. C.) 43 Fed. 520; U. S. v. Watkins, 28 Fed. Cas. 445; Johnson v. State, 9 Tex. App. 251; Longwell v. Day, 1 Mich. N. P. 290; People v. Compton, 123 Cal. 403, 50 Pac. 44.; people v. Graham, 1 Sheld. (N. Y.) 155; Rohr' v. State, 60 N. J. Law, 576, 38 Atl. 673; Haynes v. State, 15 Ohio St. 455; Garner v. State, 5 Lea, 213; State v. Greenwood, 76 Minn. 211, 78 N. W. 1012, 77 Am. St. Rep. 632; State v. Young, 46 N. H. 266, 88 Am. Dec. 212. To forge (a metaphorical expression, borrowed from the occupation of the smith) means, properly speaking, no more than to make or form, but in our law it is always taken in an evil sense. 2 East, P. C. p. 852, c. 19, | 1. 'To forge is to make in the likeness of something else; to counterfeit is to make in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original. Both words, "forced" and "counterfeited," convey the idea of similitude. State v. McKenzie, 42 Me. 392. In common usage, however, forgery is almost always predicated of some private instrument or writing, as a deed, note, will, or a signature; and counterfeiting denotes the fraudulent imitation of coined or paper money or some substitute therefor. Less...

In criminal law. The falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, | 523. See FORGE. The thing itself, so falsely made, imitated, or forged; especially a More...

In criminal law. The falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, | 523. See FORGE. The thing itself, so falsely made, imitated, or forged; especially a forged writing. A forged signature is frequently said to be "a forgery." In tbe law of evidence. The fabrication or counterfeiting of evidence. The artful and fraudulent manipulation of physical objects, or the deceitful arrangement of genuine facts or things, in such a manner as to create an erroneous impression or a false Inference in the minds of those who may observe them. See Burrill, Circ. Ev. 131. 420. Forsry aot, 1870. The statute 33 A 34 vict. c. 58, was passed for the punishment of forgers of stock certificates, and for extending to Scotland certain provisions of the forgery act of 1861. Mozley & Whitley. Less...

In old records. A herd-land, headland, or foreland. Cowell.

In old records. A herd-land, headland, or foreland. Cowell. Less...

In the civil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1 Kent, Comm. 530.

In the civil law. Discussions or arguments before a court. 1 Kent, Comm. 530. Less...

Lat. Foreign; exterior; outside; extraordinary. Servitium fo-rinsecum, the payment of aid, scutage, and other extraordinary military services. Fo-rinsecum manerium, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside the bars or town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Cowell; Blount; Jacob; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 273.

Lat. Foreign; exterior; outside; extraordinary. Servitium fo-rinsecum, the payment of aid, scutage, and other extraordinary military services. Fo-rinsecum manerium, the manor, or that part of it which lies outside the bars or town, and is not included within the liberties of it. Cowell; Blount; Jacob; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 273. Less...

In old English law. Exterior; foreign; extraordinary. In feudal law, the term "forinsic services" comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or the rendition of extraordinary military services, and in this sense was opposed to "intrinsic services." 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 273.

In old English law. Exterior; foreign; extraordinary. In feudal law, the term "forinsic services" comprehended the payment of extraordinary aids or the rendition of extraordinary military services, and in this sense was opposed to "intrinsic services." 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 273. Less...

Lat. Abroad; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic.

Lat. Abroad; out of doors; on the outside of a place; without; extrinsic. Less...