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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