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Escheat - What does it mean?

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escheat

English

Noun

(wikipedia escheat) (en noun)
  • (legal) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
  • (legal) The property so reverted.
  • (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
    • Approching, with bold words and bitter threat, / Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high / To leaue to him that Lady for excheat , / Or bide him battell without further treat.
  • That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
  • * Spenser
    • To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat .

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of property) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.

    • Derived terms

    * escheator * escheatment

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    Not English

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