Definition/Meaning of escheat

• English - Noun: Wikipedia escheat ( plural escheats ) ( law ) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants . ( law ) The property so reverted . ( obsolete ) Plunder , booty . 1590 , Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene , III .viii: Approching, with bold words and bitter threat , / Bad that same boaster , as he mote , on high /…
• English - Verb: escheat ( third-person singular simple present escheats , present participle escheating , simple past and past participle escheated ) ( of property ) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir .
• English - Derived terms: escheator escheatment
• English - Etymology: From Middle English eschete , from Anglo-Norman escheat , Old French eschet , escheit , escheoit ( “ that which falls to one ” ), from the past participle of eschoir ( “ to fall ” ), from Vulgar Latin *excadō , from Latin ex + cadō ( “ I fall ” ).
• English - Anagrams: ceaseth teaches