ESCHEAT
- to confiscate [v ESCHEATED, ESCHEATING, ESCHEATS]
- to make an escheat of; confiscate
- the reverting of property to the state or some agency of the state, or, as in England, to the lord of the fee or to the crown, when there is a failure of persons legally qualified to inherit or to claim
- the right to take property subject to escheat
- to revert by escheat, as to the crown or the state