escheat

• ⇰ जब्त करना
• ⇰ राजगमन

• ⇰ 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
• ⇰ A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
• ⇰ Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
• ⇰ That which falls to one; a reversion or return

• ⇰ 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.

• ⇰ To forfeit.