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- (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.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (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.
- (law) The property so reverted.
- (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
- That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
- (intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
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