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Tenure

lord, wardships and marriage of heirs succeeding in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes

course of the Exchequer, as soon as a sheriff or escheat or entered into his account for issues, amerciaments, etc., to

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

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incorporeal hereditament, and any equitable estate in any corporeal hereditament, escheated to the Crown. Provision was also made for the waiver

which lay where an inquisition had been taken by an escheator of lands, etc., of which a man died seised, and

inquiry made by the king's officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheat or, virtute officii, or by writ sent to them for

See Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 178. As to escheat to the Crown of a bastard's property, see ESCHEAT. Sub-ss.

he remains unmarried; (3) gavelkind lands were not liable to escheat for felon, the maxim being, 'The father to the bough,

Devenerunt, an obsolete writ, heretofore directed to the escheator on the death of the heir of the king's tenant,

Administration of Estates Act 1925, ss. 45 and 46, and ESCHEAT. And see Law of Property Act, 1922, Sch. 12 (11)

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