Escheat (Crossword)
We didn't find answers to the clue “Escheat” but we did find clues
where “Escheat” could be the answer:
- Cause to lapse
- Confiscate
- Confiscate, as property
- Confiscate, legally
- Forfeit through failure of heirs
- French word in the English language
- French word used in English
- Legal right to property
- Reversion
- Reversion of property
- Reversion of property to the state
- Revert to the state
- The property that reverts to the state
- Uninherited land
Definitions of “Escheat”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• The property that reverts to the state
• Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat
• A fee paid by inheritors for assuming vassalage for land
• In feudal tenure, escheat is a reversion of land to the lord
• A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession
• The forfeit of all property to the state when a person dies without heirs
• To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State
• The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor
• When the ownership of a property reverts to the state when an owner dies not leaving a will
• In feudal English land law, the return or forfeiture to the lord of land held by his tenant
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