Lost as a penalty

Usage examples of forfeited.

By the execution of this promise, Theodoric justly forfeited the allegiance of a people whom he devoted to destruction.

Instead of asserting his just superiority above the imperfect heroism and profane philosophy of Trajan and the Antonines, the mature age of Constantine forfeited the reputation which he had acquired in his youth.

If the judges of Israel were occasional and temporary magistrates, the kings of Judah derived from the royal unction of their great ancestor an hereditary and indefeasible right, which could not be forfeited by their own vices, nor recalled by the caprice of their subjects.

Gildo, ^37 the brother of the tyrant Firmus, had preserved and obtained, as the reward of his apparent fidelity, the immense patrimony which was forfeited by treason: long and meritorious service, in the armies of Rome, raised him to the dignity of a military count.

The Greek emperor had abdicated, or forfeited, his right to the Exarchate.

Beyond that line, the dukes or republics of Amalfi ^5 and Naples, who had never forfeited their voluntary allegiance, rejoiced in the neighborhood of their lawful sovereign.

It will be remembered, also, that the animals which the Scotch law forfeited were escheat to the king.

As long ago as Bracton, /1/ in case a man was slain, the coroner was to value the object causing the death, and that was to be forfeited sa deodand "pro rege.

And accordingly the old books say that, if a man falls from a ship and is drowned, the motion of the ship must be taken to cause the death, and the ship is forfeited, -- provided, however, that this happens in fresh water.

The ship no doubt, like a sword would have been forfeited for causing death, in whosesoever hands it might have been.

Here is a forfeited rebel and an accused murderer, with two hundred pounds on his life, and ye ask me to meddle in his business, and then tell me ye're a Whig!

Even in the best of circumstances, Artemis Entreri realized that his success, and therefore his very life, would hang on the movements of a split second and would be forfeited by the slightest turn of bad luck.

All of your catch shall be forfeited to the common fund of Ten-Towns, less Kemp's expenses for the boat and the guards, of course, and less only enough to see that you live in a measure of meager sustenance.

Even if he didn't, I would have lost my home and forfeited the rank I worked my whole life to earn.

Perhaps, with the old matron mother's death, the family has finally forfeited the goddess's regard.