escheat in English

noun
1
the reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs.
The chief lord may not demand from the tenant any relief, ward, marriage or other service, but only payment of the rent, nor may he have any other profit from the property except escheat when the law allows it.
verb
1
(of land) revert to a lord or the state by escheat.
Later Edward III interpolated a royal claim for it, on the basis that the Templar lands had escheated to the crown.

Use "escheat" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "escheat" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "escheat", or refer to the context using the word "escheat" in the English Dictionary.

1. The lord lost his claims to escheat.

2. The dormant account reverted to the state under escheat laws.

3. 19 The effect of Apprisings as to Non-entry, Ward, and Liserent Escheat.

4. The abolition of escheat has meant the abolition of the last of the practical consequences of free tenure.

5. Absolute ownership, unencumbered by any other interests or estate, subject only to the limitations imposed by the governmental powers of taxation, expropriation, police power and escheat.

6. Under Edmund Fanning, lieutenant-governor from 1787-1804, and his immediate successors, escheat implied little more than the transfer of proprietorship from absentee to resident landlord.

7. Absolute ownership, unencumbered by any other interests or estate, subject only to the limitations imposed by the governmental powers of taxation, expropriation, police power, and escheat.