escheat
Meaning of escheat
noun
- the reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs.
the Crown's right of escheat was lost
they totally abolished escheats
- (of land) revert to a lord or the state by escheat.
a private chase which had escheated to the King
Middle English: from Old French eschete, based on Latin excidere ‘fall away’, from ex- ‘out of, from’ + cadere ‘to fall’.
Information about escheat
- The plural form of escheat is: escheats.
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Hyphenation of escheat
es-cheat
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- escheat is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of escheat
Words that rhyme with escheat
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