Definition of Escheats. Meaning of Escheats. Synonyms of Escheats

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Definition of Escheats

Escheat
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.
Escheat
Escheat Es*cheat", v. t. (Law) To forfeit. --Bp. Hall.

Meaning of Escheats from wikipedia

- From the 12th century onward, the Crown appointed escheators to manage escheats and report to the Exchequer, with one escheator per county established...
- ****umed that an appanage prin****lity was created, Moscow reverted as an escheat to the grand prince of Vladimir. Until 1271, the prin****lity was ruled...
- no beneficiaries on the above list exist, the person's estate generally escheats (i.e. is legally ****igned) to the Crown (via the Bona vacantia division...
- office of Sheriff; as also to apply to their own proper use the fines and escheats arising out of the exercise of the said office." Despite being burnt by...
- intestate with no identifiable next of kin, the person's estate generally escheats (i.e., legally reverts) to the government. In cases of medical emergency...
- government powers of taxation, compulsory purchase, police power, and escheat, and may also be limited further by certain en****brances or conditions...
- motion the compulsory acquisition, was removed from office. In 1797, the Escheat Movement was born with the goal of convincing the Crown to acquire land...
- expenses than they might gain in escheats.” While noting that the plan offered by the state of New Jersey, that power to escheat should reside in the debtor's...
- origin of their former appellation by early Victorian antiquarians of "escheats". If the tenant-in-chief left a minor son as heir, that is to say one aged...
- the provincial Escheats Act was unconstitutional because escheats were a matter of federal law, not provincial. Now sitting on the escheats issue, Vice-Chancellor...