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Word: escheat
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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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