FOR 
as too large a penalty for.an offence, to which aman ‘is 
prompted by the natural love of liberty. 
Between the forfeiture o lands, and that of goods and 
cha pies ere are fome remarkable differences. 1. Lands 
till he is quints 
exadus, or finally out pi for the pieie himfel 
pa from jultice, is ale ve a flight i in ~ im 
. The forfei iture of lands h as relation 
all fib cuat flee and in- 
cumbrances the forfeiture of goods and chattels has 
no relation ee. fo that hale only on ch a man has 
at t the time oe conviétion a Be forfeited. _ Therefore a 
property is of fo fluétuating a nature, ee it cs through 
o longer could be fafe 
bond fide, part 
law (and paticlarly the ftatute 1 Tiiz, 5} will reacl 
them ; for they are all the while truly and “fabl antially the 
goods the offender ; 3; aud as he, if a acquitted, might 
fideration; fo in cafe : td ns to be convicted, the 
aw will recover them for ing. 
Lands yee o> hath = or goods a sae 
right of a ry ufe, &c. 
liable to forfeiture, ane Teales for pene in a man’s 
own, or his wife’s.right, eftates in jointenancy, &c. and 
ail ftatutes, bonds, and debts due thereby, and upon con- 
tracts, &c. fhall be forfeited. (Co, Litt. 42. 151. Staundf. 
e isa ert by mei (which > Z con- 
may bein mortmat ee Mortman) 5 
toa cue only on account of ca incapacity to hol 
the lands a lee which occafions him to be paffed by in 
defcents of land, but Tikewife on account of his prefumption 
in attempting, by an act of his own, to acquire any real pro- 
erty, (fee Avizen); and by particular tenants, when the 
sa gary are greater than the law entitles them to make, 
and diveft the peace or reverfion 3 in which cafe they 
become fetes to whofe right is hereby injured ; 
there. is. alfo alienation by difclaim:r, which fee. 
4. By non-prefentation to a benefice, when the forfeiture is 
denoiinated a lapfe, which fee. 5. By fimony, ‘which fee. 
. By breach or non-performance + conditions, annexed to 
eae, ae exprefled or legally ees (See Cee 
T10 tee. tise fee oe bestia of copy- 
held cuftoms. (See C YHOLD. ) nkruptcy, which 
There are alfo various other ar hel befides thofe 
already recited, that are infli@ted, by fpecial ftatutes, for 
particular crimes and a een A fome of which are 
mala in fe, or offences againft the divine law, sither natural 
or revealed ; but by far the greateft part are mala prohibita, 
er fuch as derive cae guilt merely from their prohibition 
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by the laws of the land; fuch as a forfeiture of 20s. per 
mion he ftat. - Eliz, ca ap. 4. for exercifing a trade 
ithout having ferved feven years peepee toi nd 
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of _ kingdom and teaching. their rrade £0 foteigners,. aré 
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7 to — aed lands, &c. by flat. 5 Geo. I. c. 2%. 
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afes where a pe 
all ca 
octane is aie en cs ftatute, helaled faying to whom it. 
or a limitation for a recompence rf the wron 
the party, it belongs to the king. etaaee o. 828. 2 Vent. 
267.) And fuch forfeitures fhall be peer oe baa 
(Cowp. 585. 8.) De Hey vol, ii. p. 267, &c. 420, 
&e. vol. iv, p. 370, &c. 416 
oods or lands of one ia for felony fhall not be 
.1 
on, &c. cannot be feized hele “ae are a ; 
though they may be saventoriel, and a charge made eee 
before indictment. ( Wood’s Inft. 659.) When goods of 
a felon are pawned before he is attainted, the king {hall not. 
have the forfeiture of the goods till the money is paid to 
him to whom they were sawned. 3 Inft. 17. 2 Nelf. Abr. 
d= 5 
The true reafon of any forfeiture, for crimes, fays judge: 
Blackftone, is this: that all p baad Lees fo-. 
ciety, being one of thofe civil rights which are conferre 
upon individuals, in exchange for e of i) 
freedom, which every man muft facritice ohn he enters: 
into focial commumities ; if, therefore, a member of any 
national community violates the fundamental contra&t of 
his affociation, by tranfgrefling the municipal law, 
forfeits his iy to fuch pr rivileges as he claims by that con- 
tract ; and the ftate may very juitly refume et portion of 
Pit, which the lay 
in the 
being the one vifible en are in whom the majetty . the: 
public — Blackft. Com. vol. i. Pp. 299. 
re) URE of marriage, ula hea es rear @& writ 
which cae lay againtt | him, who, holding by cape s: 
ee and being under age, and un ee refy 
the lord offered him, Nees : dilparagement, 
ad ee another. F. N. . Orig. 163. 
FORFEX, in oe gery, a "ai oF Foffars 
things may be 
The word is one alfo ufed for acl nippers; ot 
pliers ; and is often confounded. with Blatichard, 
aad after him Quincy, defcribes a — as an. inftrument 
for drawing teet 
ao CULA, j in sues “yy a genus of the coleope- 
ord the ay zeant es es Fin len ned’ by oud 
flog cifential charaéters : antennz otis; feelers. 
equal and filiform ; te “cata dont half cle levgth | of ae 
ed up under the wing-cafes; tail: 
THis: is the. earwig of Enghits 
wherewith 
abdomen ; ; wings "fold 
armed with forceps. 
w: iters. 
The forficule can fearcely be confidered with propriety 
as appertaining to the coleopterous tribes of infects ; 
later writers feem fo welk affar ed of this, that few a ue 
ulonata, together. with the blatté, the mantes, phafine, 
d other analogous families ;. and I ay.“conceive, 
had Fabricius been himfelf difpgféd to adopt the fyftem. 
propofed by us, he would ha laced the fortitula: 
in the hemiptera 1 d of coleoptera o heré are: 
full: objéétions to this, aad we caniot avoid appraving,,. in: 
preference to cither;. the figgeftion of Eatreillé. sa they: 
onftitute: 
