forfeited
Americanadjective
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given up, especially as a penalty or as a consequence of crime or fault.
The forfeited lands follow a line from Forest Grove to Astoria.
The forfeited shares are deemed to be owned by the company from the date agreed by the directors.
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Sports. (of a game or match) declared a loss as a result of noncompliance with the rules.
The score of a forfeited game shall be recorded as 9-0.
Goals will not be awarded to any of the players on the winning team of a forfeited match.
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In response to questions about seizures, the police department directed The Post to a general order signed by Lanier called “Handling and Accounting for Seized and Forfeited Property.”
From Washington Post
Case of the Forfeited Estates, in a letter to a certain noble Lord.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.
Hence the establishment by the Trustees of the Forfeited Estate Funds of "The Academy of Fine Art."
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel
Steele, who was a violent writer on the Whig side, held various public offices, such as Commissioner of Stamps, and Commissioner for Forfeited Estates, and sat in Parliament.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Forfeited estates were not in those days quietly resigned; Maclean, therefore, went with an armed force to seize his new possessions, and, I know not for what reason, took his wife with him.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James
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