Escheat - Law Dictionary Search Results

by gift, sale, or will; and until 1926 were descent to the heirs of an intestate owner; and escheat (see ESCHEAT) for want of heirs. By the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45, all the then

Tenure

payments upon succession aids, or contributions to the lord, wardships and marriage of heirs succeeding in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes think was superior to knight-service, whereby the tenant

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Magna Carta

of river-banks, a subject which now forms part of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No sheriff constable, escheator, coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas of our Crown.' Pleas of the Crown comprehend the

Last heir

Last heir, he to whom lands came by escheat for want of lawful heirs-that is, in some cases the lord of whom the lands were held, but

Heir

special. The issue in tail claiming per forman doni. (q) Ultimus h'res. He to whom lands come by escheat for want of proper heirs. He was either the lord of the manor or the Crown. See ESCHEAT.

Gavelkind

but only of one half so long as he remains unmarried; (3) gavelkind lands were not liable to escheat for felon, the maxim being, 'The father to the bough, the son to the plough,' although they were

Escheator

Escheator [fr. escaetor, Lat.], an officer anciently appointed by the lord treasurer, etc., in every county, to make inquests

Bona vacantia

Duke of Cornwall to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration of Estates Act 1925, ss. 45 and 46, and ESCHEAT. And see Law of Property Act, 1922, Sch. 12 (11) (c) and (English) Land Registration Act, 1925, s.

Bastard

have always had and have full disposing power. See Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 178. As to escheat to the Crown of a bastard's property, see ESCHEAT. Sub-ss. (1) and (2) of s. 9 of the

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