escheat
- Noun. (legal) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
- Noun. (legal) The property so reverted.
- Noun. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
- Verb. to revert by this process.
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