escheats 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.
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