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escheat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reversion |
escheat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | transferred possession, transferred property |
Examples of escheat
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Instead of enjoying the land by escheat, he will only receive a trifling rent.
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Edelman and Kominers track a few others such as escheat and accountability.
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It was not a form of escheat, which was an extinguishment of a tenure.
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Al all times, escheat could only accrue to the sovereign, which in Michigan, is the state.
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Escheat can result from bankruptcy or the dissolution of companies.
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In this, the lords could escheat land from those who refused to be true to their feudal services.
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Escheat laws are just one of the ways governments seize money.
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This was the basic operation of an escheat, a failure of heirs.
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Also, as in England, if no identifiable heirs are discovered, the property may escheat to the government.
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- A reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
- The property that reverts to the state
- Escheat is a common law doctrine that operates to ensure that property is not left in limbo and ownerless. ...
- (Escheats) Refers to the lands that may not be re-patented when a patentee dies without heirs (or is convicted of a crime). The land is said to "escheat."
- A legal word that describes the situation where property transfers to the ownership of the state government because there are no legal inheritors to claim it.
- The government's right to take property when someone dies with no will and no heirs.
- The process by which a deceased person's property goes to the state if no heir can be found.
- Where property is returned to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property. Escheat is based on the Latin principle of dominion directum as was often used in the feudal system when a tenant died without heirs or if the tenant was convicted of a felony.
- A reversion of property to the state in those cases where an individual dies without heirs or devisees and without a will.
