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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024es•cheat (es chēt′),USA pronunciation [Law.]n. - Lawthe reverting of property to the state or some agency of the state, or, as in England, to the lord of the fee or to the crown, when there is a failure of persons legally qualified to inherit or to claim.
- Lawthe right to take property subject to escheat.
v.i. - Lawto revert by escheat, as to the crown or the state.
v.t. - Lawto make an escheat of;
confiscate.
- Vulgar Latin *excadēre to fall to a person's share, equivalent. to Latin ex- ex-1 + cadere to fall (Vulgar Latin cadēre)
- Old French eschete, escheoite, feminine past participle of escheoir
- Middle English eschete 1250–1300
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: escheat /ɪsˈtʃiːt/ n - (in England before 1926) the reversion of property to the Crown in the absence of legal heirs
- (in feudal times) the reversion of property to the feudal lord in the absence of legal heirs or upon outlawry of the tenant
- the property so reverting
vb - to take (land) by escheat or (of land) to revert by escheat
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French eschete, from escheoir to fall to the lot of, from Late Latin excadere (unattested), from Latin cadere to fallesˈcheatable adj esˈcheatage n |