Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Forfeiture of status by a freeman.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In old English law. A base kind of slavery. The confiscation or forfeiture which takes place when a lord seizes hla tenant's estate. Blount; Du Cange.