Difference between Forfeits and Confiscate

FORFEITS vs CONFISCATE: NOUN

A penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
Something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty;
Plural form of forfeit.
The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
A game in which forfeits are demanded

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

To seize by authority: : appropriate.
To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing.

Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.
Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.
To take away from another by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily, as anything improperly held or obtained by another; seize as forfeited for any reason: as, to confiscate a book; the police confiscated a set of gambling implements.
To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; appropriate, by way of penalty, to public use.

Misses, Surrenders, Relinquishes, Waives, Looses, Loses, Throw overboard, Render, Give up, Sacrifice, Lost, Forgo, Confiscate, Waive, Forfeiture

Seizure, Detain, Expropriate, Taken over, Condemned, Appropriated, Lost, Sequester, Taken, Attach, Forfeit, Forfeited, Impound, Seized, Seize

Routs, Disqualified, Deducted, Decisioned, Pin, Voided, Wrestling, Wins, Quits, Render, Give up, Lost, Confiscate, Waive, Forfeiture

Capture, Requisition, Seizure, Detain, Taken over, Condemned, Appropriated, Lost, Taken, Attach, Forfeit, Forfeited, Impound, Seized, Seize

Among the remains of Jericho, Crow forfeits his firstborn child.
Failure to order within 30 days forfeits the discount.
Any cancellation outside of our policy forfeits your deposit.
If this prohibition is violated, theperson forfeits the office.
The guilty party forfeits all rights acquired through marriage.
It forfeits the match and gains no points.
Guest forfeits all funds received for this lodging.
Any withdrawal forfeits all dividends and closes account.
By breaking this relationship, a person forfeits blessings.
The above scale of forfeits establishes a fixed amount of forfeits for each counterparty, depending on the delay in payment.

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