Sentence examples for be forfeited to from inspiring English sources

Any excess will be forfeited to the state treasury.

Only when we are prepared to acknowledge that, and to act upon our knowledge, will lives cease to be forfeited to its savage hunger for human sacrifice.

The claim is against the property that caused harm, and the object or its equivalent value would be forfeited to the Crown as a "deodand," which is something "given to God".

The public-address announcer begged the crowd of 36,825 to stop littering the field -- "This is an important game!" he pleaded -- and added that if the littering did not stop, the game would be forfeited to the Yankees.

At this stage in the narrative, Pip is aware that the "great expectations" that Magwitch has for him are meaningless, since the money that Magwitch has laboured for in Australia on Pip's behalf is to be forfeited to the Crown.

In addition, $50 million from M/A-COM has been held essentially in an escrow account, to cover the state's costs, and that money could be forfeited to the state should the contract be canceled, according to a spokeswoman for the Office for Technology.

His duchies and fiefs were forfeited to the empire.

It turned out that the original brass wheel had been forfeited to pay an epic bar tab.

Condemned for crimes declared to be notorious by his peers in Parliament, he was hanged at Tyburn as a traitor, and his estates were forfeited to the crown.

If the purchaser defaults on his payments at some point, all previous payments are forfeited to the seller, who may also take possession of the goods.

Fans attacked the N.H.L. president Clarence Campbell, a tear-gas bomb was thrown, the game was forfeited to Detroit, and a riot broke out outside the rink.