1) Cause to lapse 2) Confiscate 3) Confiscate, legally 4) French word used in English 5) Legal right to property 6) Reversion 7) Reversion of property 8) Revert to the state 9) Uninherited land
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Escheat t is a common law doctrine which transfers the property of a person who dies without heirs to the crown or state. It serves to ensure that property is not left in `limbo` without recognized ownership. It originally applied to a number of situations where a legal interest in land was destroyed by operation of law, so that the ownership of.....
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The process by which a deceased person
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• (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. • (v. t.) To forfeit. • (n.) 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. • (n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat. • (...
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in feudal English land law, the return or forfeiture to the lord of land held by his tenant. There were generally two conditions by which land would ... [3 related articles]
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A fee paid by inheritors for assuming vassalage for land.
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Reversion of monies or securities to the state in which the securityholder was last known to reside, when no claim by the securityholder has been made after a certain period of time fixed by state law. This is known as the holding period or cut-off date.
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In feudal society, the reversion of lands to the lord in the event of the tenant dying without heirs or being convicted for treason. By the late Middle Ages in Western Europe, tenants had insured...
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When the ownership of a property reverts to the state when an owner dies not leaving a will.
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To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture. ... In this country it is the general rule that when the title to land fails by defect of heirs or devisees, it necessarily escheats to the State; but forfeiture of estate from crime is hardly known i...
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A legal word that describes the situation where property transfers to the ownership of the state government because there are no legal inheritors to claim it.
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n. from old French eschete, which meant "that which falls to one," the forfeit of all property (including bank accounts) to the state treasury if it appears certain that there are no heirs, descendants or named beneficiaries to take the property upon the death of the last known owner
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Es·cheat' intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Esheated ;
present participle & verbal noun Escheating .]
(Law) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons enti...
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Es·cheat' noun [ Middle English
eschete ,
escheyte , an escheat, from Old French
escheit ,
escheoit ,
escheeite ,
esheoite , from
escheoir (F.
échoir ) to fall to, fall to the lot of; prefix
es- (L.
ex ) +
cheoir , Fr...
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Es·cheat' transitive verb (Law) To forfeit.
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The forfeit of all property to the state when a person dies without heirs, descendants, or named beneficiaries. Compare: intestate
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In feudal tenure, escheat is a reversion of land to the lord, for want of a tenant qualified to perform the services.
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[
n] - a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs 2. [n] - the property that reverts to the state
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noun a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
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