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S vs Escheat - What's the difference?

s | escheat |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun 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.

As a verb escheat is

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

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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 .

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "escheat")

    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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