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Escheat

noun
1.
A reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs.
2.
The property that reverts to the state.





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"Escheat" Quotes from Famous Books



... them down-hill with teams to the head of this slip. By rolling the bolts, as they fell from the saw, down an incline and out on the ice of the lake, we would remove them from Mrs. Lurvey's land, and thereby comply with the letter of the law, by aid of which she was endeavoring to rob us and escheat ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens
... Professor Earle cannot be regarded as highly felicitous, since it mixes the diction of various ages. Here are Old English archaisms like 'Leeds' and 'burnie'; here are expressions like 'escheat,' 'page' (attendant), 'emprize,' 'bombard' (drinking-vessel), 'chivalry.' Here are such specialized words as 'harpoon,' 'belligerent,' 'pocket-money,' and combinations like 'battailous grip'; while throughout the entire translation are ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... destructive of the most cherished rights of the people. Moreover, it had, they claimed, deterred many from using the seal and had greatly impeded the taking up of land. They also protested against a fee demanded by the "Master of the Escheat Office of L5 or 1000lbs tobacco", and to one of thirty pounds of tobacco required by the Secretary for recording surveys of land.[1018] "This House," they declared, "upon Examination of the many grievous ...
— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker
... the Brahminical caste. There are other immunities declared to belong to this caste, in direct contradiction to what has been asserted by the prisoner. In no case shall a Brahmin suffer death; in no case shall the property of a Brahmin, male or female, be confiscated for crime, or escheat for want of heirs. The law then goes on to other castes, and gives to each its property, and distinguishes them ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


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


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