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单词 escheat
释义
escheates‧cheat /ɪsˈtʃiːt/ noun [countable] American English law Word Origin
WORD ORIGINescheat
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French eschete, from escheoir ‘to fall, be given to another’, from Latin cadere ‘to fall’
Examples
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  • The abolition of escheat has meant the abolition of the last of the practical consequences of free tenure.
a legal process in which someone’s money and property are given to the state after they die if they do not have a will, or if there is nobody else with a legal right to receive their money or property
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