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noun
Escheat  n.  
1.
(Law)
(a)
(Feud. & Eng. Law) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
(b)
(U. S. Law) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same. Note: A distinction is carefully made, by English writers, between escheat to the lord of the fee and forfeiture to the crown. But in this country, where the State holds the place of chief lord of the fee, and is entitled to take alike escheat and by forfeiture, this distinction is not essential.
(c)
A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
2.
Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
3.
That which falls to one; a reversion or return "To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat."






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"Escheat" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship of fame was she, Spices and shawls and fans she bore; A whaler when the wrinkles came— Turned off! till, spent and poor, Her bones were sold (escheat)! Ah! Stone Fleet. ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville



Words linked to "Escheat" :   transferred possession, reversion, jurisprudence, law, transferred property



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