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Escheat :: Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession..

Escheat :: Escheat (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..

Escheatage :: Escheatage (n.) The right of succeeding to an escheat.

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) 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..

Excheat :: Excheat (n.) See Escheat.

Escheatable :: Escheatable (a.) Liable to escheat.

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or retur.

Escheat :: Escheat (v. i.) 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..

Escheator :: Escheator (n.) An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them..

Donatory :: Donatory (n.) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over..

Caducary :: Caducary (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation..

Excheator :: Excheator (n.) See Escheator.

Escheating :: Escheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eschea.

Obreption :: Obreption (n.) The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.

Cheater :: Cheater (n.) An escheator.

Escheat :: Escheat (v. t.) To forfeit.

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