Escheat vs Excheat - What's the difference?
escheat | excheat |
(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:
That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
* Spenser
(of property) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
As nouns the difference between escheat and excheat
is that escheat is (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 while excheat is .As a verb escheat
is (of property) to revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.escheat
English
Noun
(wikipedia escheat) (en noun)- 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.
- To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat .