Definition of Forfault

1. forfeiture [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forfault

forewomen
foreword
forewords
foreworn
forex
forexes
foreyard
foreyards
forfair
forfaired
forfairn
forfairs
forfalture
forfaltures
forfare
forfault (current term)
forfaults
forfeit
forfeitability
forfeitable
forfeited
forfeiter
forfeiters
forfeiting
forfeits
forfeiture
forfeiture fund
forfeiture funds
forfeitures
forfend

Literary usage of Forfault

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

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... and with Mr. W. Veatch, another forfault and declared traitor, anent the carrying on of the •aid rebellion, furnished money and did favours to them, ..."

2. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"But here the King's immediate vassal ng forfault, his right, and all depending on it, is void. And it cannot be denied, t that in the case of ward, ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811)
"I with the late earle of Argile, a forfault tai i* I clared traitor, but prejudice to him ta • upon the oilier articles of the ..."

4. The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Third Series by Norman Macpherson, Scotland Court of Session (1904)
"... escheat forfault or confiscat that thon and in these cases or any of them not only shall all these deeds and debts be voyd and null of themselfs and no ..."

5. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"It is just and reasonable that the accusers should forfault their interest, and his Majesties interest being only upon occasion of their dilations, ..."

6. Burgh Laws of Dundee: With the History, Statutes, & Proceedings of the Guild by Alex Johnston Warden, Dundee (Scotland). (1872)
"... he shall, atter conviction, forfault to the fund of the Craft one third part of the value of the undertaking for the first fault, for the second fault ..."

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