Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forfeiture

Forfeiture (?; 135) , noun

[French forfeiture, Late Latin forisfactura.]

1.
The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.
Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. — Hakluyt
2.
That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
What should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture? — Shakespeare