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   escheat

   /ɪsˈtʃiːt/

   noun

   • 1. the reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs: "the Crown's right of escheat was lost"
   • ▪ an item of property affected by escheat.

   verb

   • 1. (of land) revert to a lord or the state by escheat: "a private chase which had escheated to the King"
   • ▪ hand over (land) as an escheat: "the land had been escheated to the crown"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French eschete, based on Latin excidere ‘fall away’, from ex- ‘out of, from’ + cadere ‘to fall’.

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