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English

Etymology

escheat +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t??i?tm?nt/, /?s?t??i?tm?nt/

Noun

escheatment (plural escheatments)

1. (law) The process of transferring unclaimed or abandoned property to a state authority, especially when a person dies intestate.

English

Etymology

From Middle English eschete, from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of escheoir (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t??i?t/

Noun

escheat (countable and uncountable, plural escheats)

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.
2. (law) The property so reverted.
3. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     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.

4. That which falls to one; a reversion or return.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:escheat.

Translations

Verb

escheat (third-person singular simple present escheats, present participle escheating, simple past and past participle escheated)

1. (transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 329:

     Failure to perform duties opened the culprit to charges of ‘felony’ (felonia), providing grounds for the king to escheat the fief.

2. (intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.

Derived terms

• escheator
• escheatment

Anagrams

• ceaseth, cheetas, teaches

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