escheat
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Is escheat a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.countableuncountable
2. (law) The property so reverted.countableuncountable
3. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.Examples: "Approching, with bold words and bitter threat, / Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high / To leaue to him that Lady for excheat, / Or bide him battell without further treat."countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.Examples: "Arms are very rigidly controlled in Scotland by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. […] Under an Act of 1592, Lyon King of Arms can escheat to the Sovereign all goods unlawfully displaying arms."; "Failure to perform duties opened the culprit to charges of ‘felony’ (felonia), providing grounds for the king to escheat the fief."transitive
2. (intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary