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Escheat

Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir,

escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession,

Escheator [fr. escaetor, Lat.], an officer anciently appointed by the lord

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Cheaters or escheators, were officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a

An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place and to take charge of them

Single escheat, when all a person's moveables fall to the Crown, as

were descent to the heirs of an intestate owner; and escheat (see ESCHEAT) for want of heirs. By the Administration of

of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No sheriff constable, escheator, coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas of

Liable to escheat

before 1925, if he left no heir, his real property escheated (see ESCHEAT) to the Crown or lord of the manor,

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