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Qu' plura

Qu' plura, a writ which lay where an inquisition had been taken by an escheator of lands, etc., of which a man died seised, and all the land was supposed not to be

Devenerunt

Devenerunt, an obsolete writ, heretofore directed to the escheator on the death of the heir of the king's tenant, under age and in custody, commanding the escheator

Tail

passes to his personal representatives and is liable for his debts. (4) It might have been lost by escheat; by forfeiture for treason or felony (but such forfeiture is now abolished by the Forfeiture Act, 1870); or

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Res caduca

Res caduca, means a fallen thing; an escheat, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1308.

Quod nullius est, est domini regis

regis. Fleta, 1. iii, (That which is the property of nobody belongs to our lord the King.) see ESCHEAT.

Purchase

of land in any lawful manner, other than by descent, or the mere act of law, and including escheat, occupancy, prescription, forfeiture, and alienation. See 2 Br. and Had. Com. 408 et seq. It is possession to

Privies

continues, the lessor not having accepted the assignee in substitution. (6) Privies in law, as the lord by escheat, a tenant by the courtesy, or in dower, the incumbent of a benefice, a husband suing or defending

Per and post

to come in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title, as the lord by escheat. See Co. Litt. 271 b, Harg., n. (1), II.

Obreption

a sovereign or ecclesiastical authority by fraud, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1104. Obreption, obtaining gift of escheat by false suggestion, Bell's Scots Law Dict

O. Ni

O. Ni. It was the course of the Exchequer, as soon as a sheriff or escheat or entered into his account for issues, amerciaments, etc., to mark upon his head O. Ni which denoted

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