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Meaning of जप्त in English

  • Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.
  • Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
  • To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
  • of Confiscate
  • Tending to fish out; searching out
  • Injury; wrong; mischief.
  • A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
  • Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
  • Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
  • To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
  • To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
  • To fail to keep an obligation.
  • In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
  • of Forfeit
  • To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
  • To take possession of by force.
  • To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
  • To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
  • To fasten; to fix.
  • To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
  • To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
  • of Seize
  • The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
  • The operation of fastening together or lashing.
  • The cord or lashing used for such fastening.

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