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forfeitures

n. (plural of forfeiture English)

Usage examples of "forfeitures".

The wisdom of Augustus, after curbing the freedom of revenge, applied to this domestic offence the animadversion of the laws: and the guilty parties, after the payment of heavy forfeitures and fines, were condemned to long or perpetual exile in two separate islands.

Instead, he hoped to maintain his bundle in the face of the forfeitures and fines the government could exact.

All were condemned, absent and unheard, in arbitrary fines and forfeitures, which swept away the greatest part of their substance.