escheat
/es-cheet/US // ɛsˈtʃit //UK // (ɪsˈtʃiːt) law //
退税,验收,遗弃,遗赠
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : the 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.
- : the right to take property subject to escheat.
v.无主动词 verb
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- : to revert by escheat, as to the crown or the state.
v.有主动词 verb
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- : to make an escheat of; confiscate.
Examples
They therefore reported that there should be no escheat of the original grants for non-performance of conditions as to settlement.
In case a master died without lawful heirs, his slaves did not escheat, but were regarded as other personal estate or property.
The same vagueness enshrouds the infancy of the escheat propter defectum tenentis.
The burghers power of devising his land made escheat a rare event, and so destroyed the evidence of mesne tenure.
The estate would escheat to the king, Hanoverian or Scotchman, before it came to me.
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