[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FORFEIT.
α. c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 172/1. Forfetynge.
1545. Brinkelow, Compl., 2. Of the forfetting of the londes or goodes of traytours.
β. 1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xvi. 56.
| Als he gat Setoun out of hands, | |
| From forfalting he sault his lands. |
1584. Ld. Hounsdane to Sir F. Walsinghame, in Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), IV. 172. There may be nothing done therin to the prejudice of these noblemen, and others now in England, for the forfaulting of their livings and goods.
1884. Seriff Rampini, Shetland and its People, in Good Words, XXV. Nov., 750/2. On the attachment of the islands to the Stewart-lands, or private domain of the Scottish King in 1614, on the forefaulting of Patrick, Earl of Orkney, their superior, the Great Fowd was superseded by the King’s Chamberlain or Steward-depute.
