Associations to the word «Escheat»

Wiktionary

ESCHEAT, 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.
ESCHEAT, noun. (legal) The property so reverted.
ESCHEAT, noun. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
ESCHEAT, noun. That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
ESCHEAT, verb. (of property) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.

Dictionary definition

ESCHEAT, noun. A reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs.
ESCHEAT, noun. The property that reverts to the state.

Wise words

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