ESCHEAT
\ˈɛʃiːt], \ˈɛʃiːt], \ˈɛ_ʃ_iː_t]\
Definitions of ESCHEAT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
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Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
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That which falls to one; a reversion or return
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To forfeit.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
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Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
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That which falls to one; a reversion or return
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To forfeit.
By Noah Webster.
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In England, the resulting back of any land or tenements to the lord of the fee or to the state through failure of heirs: formerly also through the corruption of the blood of the tenant by his having been attainted; this latter kind of escheat was abolished by the Felony Act of 1870 (33 and 34 Vict. xxiii); lands, if freehold, escheat to the king or other lord of the manor; if copyhold, to the lord of the manor: by modern English legislation there can be no escheat on failure of the whole blood wherever there are persons of the half-blood capable of inheriting: in the United States, the reverting of real property to the state, as original and ultimate proprietor, in consequence of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same: the place or circuit within which the king or lord is entitled to escheats: a writ to recover escheats from the person in possession: the lands which fall to the lord or state by escheat; as, "Of such treason the forfeiture of the escheats pertaineth to our lord the king."-Hallam: in Scots law, the forfeiture incurred by a man's being denounced a rebel: that which falls to one; a reversion or return; as, To make me great by other's loss is bad escheat.
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Spenser.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Old English] The reverting of lands to the lord of the fee or to the state, as original and ultimate proprietor, by failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same;—the lands which fall to the lord or state by escheat;— that which falls to one; a reversion.
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