Trust estates were not subject to escheat until the Intestates' Estates Act 1884, but now by that act the law of escheatapplies in the same manner as if the estate or interest were a legal estate in corporeal hereditaments.
Besides escheatfor defect of heirs, there was formerly also escheat propter delictum tenentis, or by the corruption of the blood of the tenant through attainder consequent on conviction and sentence for treason or felony.
By modern legislation there can be no escheat on failure of the whole blood wherever there are persons of the half-blood capable of inheriting.
Lands, if freehold, escheat to the king or other lord of the manor; if copyhold, to the lord of the manor.
Most earldoms and many baronages came into the royal house by escheator marriage.
Interests in remainder or reversion of estates in land replace the lord's tenurial right to succeed to land byescheat if his tenant dies without heirs.
An attempt to do so will cause the land to escheat to the lord, or in his default, to the King.
There never was any escheat in case of an attainder and execution for felony; their maxim being "the father to the bough, the son to the plough.
Another incident of the tenure, and this sometimes a very profitable one, is the escheat to the lord on failure of heirs.
A process[54] was at once taken in hand to proscribe his memory and escheat his property.
If he had no heirs and no will [intestate], all his chattels would escheat to his lord.
And we will hold the escheat in the same manner in which the baron held it.
They therefore reported that there should be no escheat of the original grants for non-performance of conditions as to settlement.
My Lord,--I have had the honor of receiving your despatch of the fifth October, whereby you desire that I will express to you my judgment on the whole subject of escheat in the Island of Prince Edward.
Scots Law) Defn: The obtaining gifts of escheatby fraud or surprise.
Last heir, the person to whom lands escheat for want of an heir.
Note: A distinction is carefully made, by English writers, between escheatto the lord of the fee and forfeiture to the crown.
But in this country, where the State holds the place of chief lord of the fee, and is entitled to take alike escheat and by forfeiture, this distinction is not essential.
Mr. Hubbard is at my house waiting for you, and we are sadly afraid, do what we can, the escheat will pass.
It was undoubtedly at this time that the oblong stone keep on the motte, which is described in an escheat of Henry VIII.
Ranulph, Earl of Chester, died in 1153, and the castle would then escheat into the king's hands.
Escheat and confiscation of goods for the great crimes, such as killing, theft, rapine, heresy, etc.
Escheat and confiscation of goods come under the high justice, and the prevot has the same rights in fines and escheats as in the case of Troyes [see above].
At a later period, having been licensed of heresy, the escheat of the goods belonging to Mr. John Wedderburn, "convict.
The property of persons convicted of heresy and other penal crimes, became escheated to the Crown; and the escheat was usually bestowed by a special grant from the King under the Privy Seal, upon payment of a composition to the High Treasurer.
This includes manors which had been given away subsequently, and excludes such as had lapsed to the king after the Conquest by escheat or forfeiture[139].
The law of escheat relates to the property of a citizen who dies without heirs, near or remote, and without a will.
But instances of escheat do not occur perhaps twice in a century in any State, and, consequently, is of trifling moment.
Those ofescheat are foreign from it, for the same reason.
Any real property acquired in fee in violation of the provisions of this act shall escheat to, and become the property of, the State of California.
The attorney general or district attorney of the proper county shall institute proceedings to have suchescheat adjudged and enforced as provided in section seven of this act.
The attorney general shall institute proceedings to have the escheat of such real property adjudged and enforced in the manner provided by section 474 of the Political Code and title eight, part three of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Any share of stock or the interest of any member in a company, association or corporation hereafter acquired in violation of the provisions of section three of this act shall escheat to the State of California.
Such escheat shall be adjudged and enforced in the same manner as provided in this section for the escheat of a leasehold or other interest in real property less than the fee.
The attorney general shall institute proceedings to have such escheatadjudged and enforced as provided in section five of this act.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escheat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: damages; distress; fine; forfeit; forfeiture; mulct; sconce
