Sentence examples for is forfeit to from inspiring English sources

Invoking, implicitly, Shylock's pound of flesh, she declares that Edmund's "life is forfeit to me.

That may sound like a decent amount, but the money used to finance an annuity is forfeited to the insurer, so much of the 7.1 percent amounts to a return of capital.

If an offensive player steps into the crease illegally, possession is forfeited to the opposite team.

All gold reserves, down to wedding rings, are forfeit to the government.

Woe betide Marrakesh-bound traders who used High Atlas mountain passes without paying their dues to this family of mountain toll-keepers: goods and freedom could be forfeit to the Glaoui.

The house was forfeit to the crown and then had various owners including Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who in 1552 sold it to William Clifton, a London merchant who had been assembling a Somerset estate.

The manor of Sheldon was granted to Sir William de Beauvilain in about 1180; on his death, as a Norman, it was forfeit to The Crown as an escheat and then granted to the de Godarville family in 1231 by Henry III.

The Derwentwater estate was forfeit to the Crown after the execution of James Radclyffe, third Earl of Derwentwater, in 1716 for his part in the Jacobite rebellion the previous year.

His duchies and fiefs were forfeited to the empire.

Any excess will be forfeited to the state treasury.

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