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Escheat 1Definition: 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 heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
Escheat 2Definition: The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same. Escheat 3Definition: A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Escheat 4Definition: Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat. Escheat 5Definition: That which falls to one; a reversion or return Escheat 6Definition: To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture. Escheat 7Definition: To forfeit. escheat 8Definition: the property that reverts to the state escheat 9Definition: a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
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