 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...thief or of those having illegal possession of it ; also the reward fixed lor such rescue. FORFEITURE, a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of things real, whereby the estate U transferred toanother, who is usually the party injured. It is occasioned,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 692 pages
...TITLE TO PERSONAL PROPERTY BY FORFEITURE. 1558. Forfeiture, applied to lands as well as to goods, is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or...lands, tenements or hereditaments, whereby he loses his interest therein, and they go to the party injured as a recompense for the wrong which he alone,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...ancestors, the latter, in a yut estale 268 CHAPTER XVIII. OF TITLE BY FORFEITURE 267 to 286 1. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of tilings real; whereby the estate is transferred to another, who is usually the party injured 267 2.... | |
 | Thomas Spence - Admission to the bar - 1864 - 456 pages
...his hand to be applied and distributed in the same manner as personal estate. Title by forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or...interest therein, and they go to the party injured as a recompence for the wrong which either he alone, or the public, together with himself, hath sustained.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 878 pages
...meaning. Blackstone gives us a whole chapter on this important word, which he begins thus : Forfeiture Is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence In the owner of lands, tenements, hereditament«, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party Injured as a recompense... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, whereby ho loses all his interest thTnn, and they go to the party injured as a recompense for the wrong sustained.0 Again, he enumerates "forfeiture,** deed, device, Ac., u the modes of absolute conveyance... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...by law to some ille- * gal act or negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, and* hereditament*, 0 `0 H0 sustained." Again, he enumerates " forfeiture," deed, device, Ac., as the modes of absolute conveyance... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...Blackstouc gives us a whole chapter on this important word, which h>: begins thus: " Forfeiture Is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, and •hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured as... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...Blackstone gives us a whole chapter on this important word, which, he begins thus: - Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lande, tenements, and hereditaments, whereby he loses all his Interest therein, and they go to the... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - Criminal law - 1872 - 1084 pages
...$, 1865. Fifthly r, — Forfeiture of property. Forfeiture (says Blackstone, vol. II., p. 261,) is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or...they go to the party injured, as a recompense for wrong which cither he alone, or the public together with himself has sustained. Sixthly, — Fine.... | |
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ORFEITURE is 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... 
