noun
(law) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
(law) The property so reverted.
(obsolete) Plunder, booty.
That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
verb
(transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
(intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
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