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Escheat

Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it

escheat

escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession, inheritance, from feminine past participle of escheoir to

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Escheatable

Liable to escheat

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Escheat

The falling back or reversion of lands by some casualty or accident to the lord of the fee in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant which may happen by his dying without...

Cheaters or escheators

Cheaters or escheators, were officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a duty which gave them great opportunities of fraud

Single escheat

Single escheat, when all a person's moveables fall to the Crown, as a casualty, because of his being declared rebel.

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Caducary

Relating to escheat forfeiture or confiscation

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