Forfeiture

Forfeiture of your assets is the last thing you should be worried about.

Tom bought his car at a forfeiture auction.

Civil asset forfeiture is corruptly used to deprive innocent people of their property.

This thought, that a man may forfeit his rights, is as essential to proper conceptions of civil government, and civil liberty, as the thought that a man has rights; for if there be no forfeiture of rights through crime, then all legal punishments are without foundation in justice; even the right of self-defense, individually and nationally, ceases to exist.

We conclude that the government has forfeited any claim of forfeiture, so we proceed to consider the merits.