escheatableadj.
/ɛsˈtʃiːtəb(ə)l/ Liable to escheat.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [adjective] > reverted to lord, king, or state > liable or relating to
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caduciary1757
caducary1768
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escheable, escheatable.
1629 Vse of Law 49 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light The Customes of Kent, is that Gauilkind land is not forfeitable nor Escheatable for Felonie.
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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