Escheat
n. from old French eschete, which meant "that which falls to one," the forfeit of all property (including bank accounts) to the state treasury if it appears certain that there are no heirs, ...
Escheat: An assignment of property to the state because there is no verifiable legal owner.
Estate: Everything of value that a person owned prior to the time of death.
Escheat- The process by which a deceased person's property goes to the state if no heir can be found.
Escheat:
Where property is returned to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property.
escheat - The forfeit of all property to the state when a person dies without heirs.
escheatIn American law, the right of the state to an estate left vacant, to which no one makes a valid claim.
estoppelA person's own act. or acceptance of facts. which preclude later claims to the contrary.
escheat A reversion of property to the State as a result of the lack of any person entitled to inherit the property from the decedent.
et al Latin term meaning and others.
et ano Latin term meaning and one other.
ESCHEAT, title to lands. According to the English law, escheat denotes an obstruction of the course of descent, and a consequent determination of the tenure, by some unforeseen contingency; in which case the land naturally results back, ...
Escheat
The legal act of returning property to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property.
French escheat: from fraud used by lords of manors to procure escheats.
Expanded Legal Definition of EquityEscheat Where property is surrendered to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property.
For murder, the offender forfeited to the crown the profit of his freeholds during life, and in the case of lands held in fee-simple, the lands themselves for a year and a day; subject to this, the lands escheated to the lord of the fee.
escheat, reversion of unclaimed property to a feudal lord, or the state where the property is allodial.
estoppel, prevention of a party from contradicting a position previously taken.
feme covert and feme sole.
Force majeure including acts of god.
without a valid will, statutes determine how her property is divided up among her relatives; if no relatives can be found, the property escheats (i.e., goes to the government). Wills are made to vary the statutory scheme (e.g.
A fee simple is an estate inlands or tenements which, in reference to the ownership of individuals, is not restrained to any heirs in particular, nor subject to any condition or collateral determination except the laws of escheat and the canons of ...
VACANTIA, BONA,
civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat. ... more
TO VACATE
To annul, to render an act void; as to vacate an entry which has been made on a record when the court has been imposed... more ...
Fee Simple Estate: Absolute ownership unencumbered by an other interest or estate; subject only to the limitations of eminent domain, escheat, police power, and taxation.
 See also: Person, Law, Will, State, Right
  
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