escheat

How To Use escheat In A Sentence

• Robert Carter writes to [Governor William Gooch,] May 21, 1728, to send by his son Charles a commission for the governor's signature that will renew Carter's post as escheator of the Northern Neck. Letter from Robert Carter to [Governor William Gooch,] May 21, 1728
• Basically the gov wants it escheated, otherwise they feel we would be earning interest on it, when they should be. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Reading the Volokh Conspiracy Pays off in Cash,”
• Her property and land should be escheated to the nation.
• For which causes and crimes he has forfeited his life, lands, and goods, movable and immovable; which shall be escheated to the King. Letters to Dead Authors
• mortmain" were for this reason always regarded as wrong in principle, though the loss occasioned to the feudal lord by the cessation of reliefs, escheats, wardships, marriages, etc., when the land was made over to ecclesiastical uses could not be denied. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• Land could be confiscated if the tenant violated his duties to his landlord, and it "escheated" to the lord in case of failure of heirs. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
• Our entire CD, worth almost $7,000, had been escheated to the state. Go Jump In A Lake
• Meanwhile President Frank Porter Graham presented to the Board in September, 1932, a recommendation for a legislative act requiring all clerks of the court to report to the escheator and that unclaimed freight and bank deposits be also reported to him. The History of Escheats
• States usually publish a list of names of individuals whose property has been escheated.
• A tract of country, which had been parcelled out among twenty-eight lords, now became subject to one; and all the intricacies of feodal dependence, all the rigours of feodal exaction, wardships, reliefs, escheats, &c., were introduced at once. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)