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Single escheat, when all a person's moveables fall to the Crown, as a casualty, because of his being declared rebel. See FORFEITURE....
Escheat
Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family.Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown to 'bona vacantia' now includes real property under (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 46. See BONA VACAN-TIA.The title of the Crown was ascertained by inquiry regulated by rules under the (English) Escheat Procedure Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to hold such inquiries.If differed from a forfeiture [now abolished for treason or felony by the (Engli...
escheat
escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession, inheritance, from feminine past participle of escheoir to fall (to), befall, ultimately from Latin ex- out + cadere to fall] 1 : escheated property 2 : the reversion of property to the state upon the death of the owner when there are no heirs vt : to cause to revert by escheat vi : to revert by escheat es·cheat·able adj ...
Escheator
Escheator [fr. escaetor, Lat.], an officer anciently appointed by the lord treasurer, etc., in every county, to make inquests of titles by escheat, which inquests were to be taken by good and lawful men of the county, impannelled by the sheriff, 4 Inst. 225. See ESCHEAT.A royal officer appointed to assess the value of property escheating to crown, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 564....
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 and oppression, and in consequence many complaints were made of their misconduct. Hence it seems that a cheater came to signify a fraudulent person, and thence the verb to cheat was derived, Wedgw....
Escheatable
Liable to escheat...
Escheator
An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place and to take charge of them...
single minded
Having a single purpose concentrating on a single goal hence artless guileless single hearted...
Single foot
An irregular gait of a horse called also single footed pace See Single v i...
single publication rule
single publication rule : a rule in the law of libel that treats an edition of a print source (as a magazine) as one publication giving rise to one cause of action for libel regardless of how many copies were printed and where they were distributed ...
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