ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.
α. 1530. Act 22 Hen. VIII., c. 15. Al issues forfaited fines and amerciaments affiered.
1752. Scots Mag., Nov. (1753), 554/2. His family, as … being … connected with the forfeited person, would be … suspected.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., V. 272. They determined to vest in the trustees of the forfeited lands an estate greater than had ever belonged to the forfeiting landholders.
1893. Stevenson, Catriona, 15. ‘He’s a forfeited rebel, the more’s the pity,’ said I, ‘for the man’s my friend.’
β. 1687. Crim. Lett. agst. Burnet, in Burnet, Six Papers, 54. It is declared High-Treason for any of our Subjects to Recept, Supply, or Intercommon with declared or Forfaulted Traitors.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, The Present State of Great-Britain, II. II. v. (1718), 403. He or his Deputy holding in his Hand one Escutcheon of the Arms of the forefaulted person.
