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Definition of escheating:
(n) :
(law) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
(n) :
(law) The property so reverted.
(v) :
(intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
(v) :
(transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
(n) :
That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
(n) :
(obsolete) Plunder, booty.
Definition of escheating:
(n) :
(law) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
(n) :
(law) The property so reverted.
(v) :
(intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
(v) :
(transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
(n) :
That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
(n) :
(obsolete) Plunder, booty.
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