escheat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The return, conversion, or vesting of property of a deceased person or closed business to the government (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants. It is known as bona vacantia in the United Kingdom.
2. isim The property so reverted.
3. isim Plunder, booty.

   “Approching, with bold words and bitter threat, / Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high / To leaue to him that Lady for excheat, / Or bide him battell without further treat.”

4. isim That which falls to one; a reversion or return.

   “And by my ruines thinkes to make them great: / To make one great by others losse, is bad excheat”

5. fiil To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.

   “Arms are very rigidly controlled in Scotland by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. […] Under an Act of 1592, Lyon King of Arms can escheat to the Sovereign all goods unlawfully displaying arms.”

6. fiil To revert, convert, or vest ownership to the government or lord because its previous owner died without an heir or a business closed and no one claims the assets.