 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 886 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 l:inrK tenements, hereditament«, whereby he loses all hie interest therein, and they go to the party... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...lands, 266 rules oí prescription, 2u(w CHAPTER XVIII. Or TITLE BY FORFEITURE,., 267-286 forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of things real, whereby he loses his interest to another, 267 I. forfeiture for crime is principally for,... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 366 pages
...Lord Tenterden's Act, 2&3 Wm. IV., c. 71. See also 3 & 4 Wm. IV., c. 42. IV. Forfeiture. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or...hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, which thereupon vests in the person suffering the injury, or in the Crown, or in some representative... | |
 | Henry Foulks Lynch - Law - 1874 - 460 pages
...is also forfeited to the crown. What is title by forfeiture, and when does it arise? Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of lands, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured. It may arise, by alienation... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - Insurance - 1876 - 846 pages
...or negligence in the owner of real property, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and it goes to the party injured as a recompense for the wrong which either he alone, or the public with him, hath sustained. Forfeiture is either civil or criminal. Except in treason or murder the forfeiture... | |
 | John Indermaur, Charles Thwaites - Law - 1883 - 200 pages
...Remember that forfeiture is a punishment annexed to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured. There are three kinds of forfeitures: — I. Alienation in mortmain is an alienation of lands or tenements... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...*cEngland assigns them an immediate owner. CHAPTER XVII. OF TITLE BY FORFEITURE. Forfeiture. FORFEITURE is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or...which either he alone, or the public together with him, hath ^ sustained, ' or to the Crown.' The Tarious" Lands, tenements, and hereditaments, may be... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1885 - 760 pages
...law or contract, to some act or negligence in the owner, whereby he loses all his right and interest, and they go to the party injured as a recompense for the wrong he has sustained. There is in this case no injury or wrong to plaintiffs shown, and none can reasonably... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1889 - 1462 pages
...property, right, privilege, franchise, or benefit from one person, and transferring the same to another; * a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or...hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and the same becomes vested in the party injured, as a recompense for the wrong which he alone, or the... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...CHAPTER XVIII. IV. OF TITLE BY FORFEITURE. aer-явг. DKF1MTION OF КПКККПТВК. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or...owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments; whereby lie loses all his interest therein, and they go to the party injured, as a recompense for the wrong... | |
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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... 
