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• ESCHEAT (O. Fr. esthete, from escheoir, to fall to one's share; Lat. excidere, to fall out)

ESCHEAT (O. Fr. esthete, from escheoir, to fall to one's See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share; See also:

• LAT

Lat. excidere, to fall out)  , in See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the reversion of lands to the next See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord on the failure of heirs of the See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant . " When the tenant of an See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate in See also:

• FEE

fee See also:

• SIMPLE

simple See also:

• DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)

dies without having alienated his estate in his lifetime or by his will, and without leaving any heirs either lineal or See also:

• COLLATERAL (from Med. Lat. collateralis,—cum, with, and latus, lateris, side,—side by side, hence parallel or additional)

collateral, the lands in which he held his estate See also:

• ESCHEAT (O. Fr. esthete, from escheoir, to fall to one's share; Lat. excidere, to fall out)

escheat, as it is called, to the lord of whom he held them " (See also:

• WILLIAMS
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582-1650)
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)
• WILLIAMS, ROGER (c. 1604–1684)
• WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)
• WILLIAMS, SIR WILLIAM FENWICK

Williams on the Law of Real See also:

• PROPERTY

Property) . This See also:

• RULE

rule is explained by the conception of a See also:

• FREEHOLD

freehold estate as an See also:

• INTEREST

interest in lands held by the freeholder from some lord, the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king being lord See also:

• PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain)

paramount . (See ESTATE.) The granter retains an interest in the See also:

• LAND

land similar to that of the donor of an estate for See also:

• LIFE

life, to whom the land reverts after the life estate is ended . As there are now few freehold estates traceable to any See also:

• MESNE (an Anglo-French legal form of the O. Fr. meien, mod. moyen, mean, Med. Lat. medianus, in the middle, cf. " mean ")

mesne or intermediate lord, escheats, when they do occur, fall to the king as lord paramount . Besides escheat for defect of heirs, there was formerly also escheat propter delictum tenentis, or by the corruption of the See also:

• BLOOD

blood of the tenant through See also:

• ATTAINDER (from the O. Fr. ataindre, ateindre, to attain, i.e. to strike, accuse, condemn; Lat. attingere, tangere, to touch; the meaning has been greatly affected by the confusion with Fr. taindre, teindre, to taint, stain, Lat. tingere, to dye)

attainder consequent on conviction and See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence for See also:

• TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

treason or See also:

• FELONY (0. Fr. felonie, from felon, a word meaning " wicked," common to Romanic languages, cf. Italian fella, fellone, the ultimate origin of which is obscure, but is possibly connected either with Lat. fel, gall, or fallere, to deceive. The English " fel

felony . The blood of the tenant becoming corrupt by attainder was decreed no longer inheritable, and the effect was the same as if the tenant had died without heirs . The land, therefore, escheated to the next See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir, subject' to the See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior right of the See also:

• CROWN

crown to the See also:

• FORFEITURE (from " forfeit," originally an offence, and hence a fine exacted as a penalty for such; derived through the O. Fr. forfeit, from the late Lat. foris factum, a trespass, that which is done foris, outside)

forfeiture of the lands,—in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of treason for ever, in the case of felony for a See also:

• YEAR

year and a See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . All this was abolished by the Felony See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1870, which provided for the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of an See also:

• ADMINISTRATOR

administrator to the property of the convict . Escheat is also an incident of See also:

• COPYHOLD

copyhold See also:

• TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenure . See also:

• TRUST

Trust estates were not subject to escheat until the Intestates' Estates Act 1884, but now by that act the law of escheat applies in the same manner as if the estate or interest were a legal estate in corporeal hereditaments .