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escheat
escheat is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
- 2noun
The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
- 3noun
A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
- 4noun
Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
- 5noun
That which falls to one; a reversion or return
- 6intransitive verb
To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
- 7transitive verb
To forfeit.
- 8noun
the property that reverts to the state
- 9noun
a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
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