Definitions from Wiktionary (escheat)

▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (law) The property so reverted.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
▸ noun:  That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
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