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Definition of 'escheat'English
Noun
( wikipedia)
( 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 .
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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