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Word: escheat (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • legal The property so reverted.
  • legal The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
  • obsolete Plunder, booty.

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Verb:

  • to revert by this process

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