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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.
Excheator
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Caducary
Relating to escheat forfeiture or confiscation
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