Eschew vs Escheat - What's the difference?
eschew | escheat |
(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 verbs the difference between eschew and escheat
is that eschew is to avoid; to shun, to shy away from while escheat is to revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.As a noun escheat is
the return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.eschew
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Usage notes
* The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.Quotations
{{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citationDerived terms
* (l)References
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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 .