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.