Meaning of Escheat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
   countable, uncountable
2. The property so reverted.
   countable, uncountable
3. Plunder, booty.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“And by my ruines thinkes to make them great: / To make one great by others losse, is bad excheat”

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