To lose au estate, a franchise, or other property belonging to oue, by tlie act of the law, and ns a consequence of some misfeasance, negligence, or omission. Cassell v. Crothers, 193 Pa. 359, 44 Atl. 446; State v. De Gress, 72 Tex. 242, 11 S. W. 1029; State v. walbrldge, 119 Mo. 383, 24 S. W. 457. 41 Am. St. Rep. 0i>3; State v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 12 Gill & J. (Md.) 432, 38 Am. Dec. 319. The further ideas connoted by this term are that it is a deprivation, (that is, against the will of the losing iwrty,) aud that tlie property is either transferred to another or resumed by the original grantor
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
