How To Use Escheat In A Sentence
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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
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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,”
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Her property and land should be escheated to the nation.
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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
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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

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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
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Our entire CD, worth almost $7,000, had been escheated to the state.
Go Jump In A Lake
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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
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States usually publish a list of names of individuals whose property has been escheated.
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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)
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In California, a CD can be escheated if there's no activity in the account for three years after it matures.
Go Jump In A Lake
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the dormant account reverted to the state under escheat laws
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The fixed rent replaced the service, military or personal, required under feudal law; and the socage tenure in effect did not subject the land to the rules of escheat or return of the land to the
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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This is in sharp contrast with France, for example, where during these same centuries the French kings were keeping a tight hold on escheated lands.
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The chief lord may not demand from the tenant any relief, ward, marriage or other service, but only payment of the rent, nor may he have any other profit from the property except escheat when the law allows it.
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Already wealthy and influential, in 1687 he went to London and secured, through the favor of William Blathwayt, the office of receiver-general of the customs, to which was attached the office of escheator; offices, among the most important in the colony, which he held until his death.
Beginnings of the American People
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A feodary, I should observe, was an officer of the Court of Wards, who was joined with the escheator and did not act singly; I conceive therefore that Shakspeare by this expression indicates an associate; one in the same plight as others; negatively, one who does not stand alone.
Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850
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So a disseisor, abator, intruder, or the lord by escheat, &c., shall have them as things annexed to the land
The Common Law
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The attention of the company was then directed, by a natural transition, to the little girl who had had the audacity to burn her hair off, and who, after receiving sundry small slaps and pushes from the more energetic of the ladies, was mercifully sent home: the ninepence, with which she was to have been rewarded, being escheated to the Kenwigs family.
Nicholas Nickleby
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Deputy is instructed to issue a commission to measure off so much of other escheated lands adjoining "as shall be requisite to make up the full number and quantity of three seignories and a-half of tenantable land, without mountains, bogs, or barren heath; To hold for ever in fee-farm, as of the Castle of Carregroghan, in the Co. of Cork, in free soccage and not in capite.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
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Money is escheated -- turned over to the state-when it has apparently been forgotten about.
Go Jump In A Lake
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If you have two CDs and write about only one of them, the other could be escheated away.
Go Jump In A Lake
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Taking just one example, intestacy laws (which provide for inheritance in the absence of a will) were designed to prevent escheat of property to the state and to give effect to what would most likely have been a deceased's wishes.
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Page 110 such offense by said ordinance; and no amercement, fine, penalty, forfeiture, escheat, bond, or recognizance, accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of
Ordinances and constitution of the state of Alabama: with the constitution of the provisional government and of the Confederate States of America
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Two years after his death his son Walter obtained the King's precept to his escheator to hand over the lands of his mother's inheritance to him, and shortly afterwards he secured his father's also.
Shakespeare's Family
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Later Edward III interpolated a royal claim for it, on the basis that the Templar lands had escheated to the crown.
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However, he died a few months later, and the wardship of his three-year-old son, Roger, and his estate, escheated to the king.
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I met at Wilensi an old Harari, whose gardens and property had all been escheated, because his son fled from justice, after slaying a man.
First footsteps in East Africa
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A feodary, I should observe, was an officer of the Court of Wards, who was joined with the escheator and did not act singly; I conceive therefore that Shakspeare by this expression indicates an associate; one in the same plight as others; negatively, one who does not stand alone.
Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850
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They created enemies in suing their neighbors to recover revenues from escheated lands.
Early Student Rebellions
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No inquiry was made immediately after his death as to the lands of which he died seised; but about eleven months afterwards, a commission was issued to the feodor and deputy-escheator of Oxfordshire, pursuant to which an inquisition was taken on the 11th of April 1633, at
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
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I., a tenant in fee simple might grant lands to be holden by the grantee and his heirs _of the grantor and his heirs_, subject to feudal services and to escheat; and by such subinfeudation manors were created.
Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Colonel Byrd was fortunately escheator as well as receiver, and the lapse of his own title was not declared until 1701, when the same tract was immediately repatented to Nathaniel Harrison, who straightway transferred it to his neighbor and very good friend, the original patentee.
Beginnings of the American People
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So a disseisor, abator, intruder, or the lord by escheat, &c., shall have them as things annexed to the land
The Common Law
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A brief look at the escheator's inquisitions in the wake of the revolt add substance to this assessment.
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The Superior Court of Los Angeles County concluded that the property purchased by Fujii had escheated to the State.
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IV. bore the office tt of escheator of the counties of Warwick and Leicester.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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The charter also granted one bailiff the powers of king's escheator, with any fines or revenues from escheated goods going towards the farm.
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The inquisitor-general presided, with aid of six or seven counsellers nominated by the king; and his officers were a fiscal (or quasi prosecuting attorney), two secretaries, a receiver, two relators, a secuestrador (or escheator), and officials.
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
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But the land could not be granted again until the lapse of title was officially declared in the office of the escheator.
Beginnings of the American People
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Then the Church was disincorporated, and its property both real and personal confiscated and escheated to the government of the
The Story of "Mormonism"