escheat (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

(lb, en, 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.
(lb, en, legal) The property so reverted.
(lb, en, obsolete) plunder, Plunder, booty.
That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
(lb, en, of property) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.