Definition of Escheating. Meaning of Escheating. Synonyms of Escheating

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Definition of Escheating

Escheating
Escheat Es*cheat", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Esheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Escheating.] (Law) 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. Note: 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 in this country, and corruption of blood is universally abolished. --Kent. --Bouvier.

Meaning of Escheating from wikipedia

- a good-faith effort to find the owners of their dormant accounts. The escheating criteria are set by individual state regulations. Escheat can still occur...
- 1609, Scottish and English settlers, known as planters, were given land escheated from the native Irish in the Plantation of Ulster. Coupled with Protestant...
- guilty and was executed, their heirs would inherit nothing, their property escheating to the state. If they refused to plead their heirs would inherit their...
- these would often not be available until the in****bent died and they escheated to the King. In 1337, Philip VI of France confiscated the English king's...
- guilty and were executed their heirs would inherit nothing, their property escheating to the Crown. Peine forte et dure was abolished in Great Britain in 1772...
- managed to defend its possessions, but the Papacy declared the Kingdom escheated because of the disloyalty of the Hohenstaufen. Under this pretext, Manfred...
- Andrew's claim to the throne. Rudolf I of Germany claimed that Hungary escheated to him after Ladislaus IV's childless death, because Ladislaus IV's grandfather...
- allies fled Ireland in 1607 in the Flight of the Earls, their lands became escheated to the Crown and the county divisions designed by Perrot were used as...
- from the Duke of Cornwall as lord paramount. In the case of English land escheating situated within the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall, it reverts...
- Bishop of Mexico 1528–1548 Succeeded by Alonso de Montúfar Vacant Escheated Title last held by Hernando Medel Encomendero of Ocuituco 1535–1544 Escheated...