escheat in the PONS Dictionary

escheat Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

writ of escheat
иск за собственост върху безнаследствен имот

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Where title can not be proved, the property escheats (reverts) to the state by law.
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Out of the feudal tenures or holdings sprung certain rights and incidents, among those which were fealty and escheat.
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They are subject to escheat only in the event of failure of successors in ownership.
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The castle fell into escheat during the 19th century.
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The principal incidents of a seignory were an oath of fealty, a quit or chief rent; a relief of one year's quit rent, and the right of escheat.
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This was the basic operation of an escheat (excadere), a failure of heirs.
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Upon his death the land devolved upon his eldest son or, if he died without leaving an heir, the land would escheat to his overlord.
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It is important to understand that such a tenure did not escheat, even temporarily, to the crown pending the re-enfeoffment of the heir.
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Other sources of income were zakat, customs, salt tax, khums, mint, currency, jiziya, escheats, presents, octroi, tolls and tributes.
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Nor could the land-holding escheat, that is to say revert back permanenly to the overlord, as was customary where the land-holder died without a legal heir.
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