escheat

• The legal term is called escheat, meaning handing over property to the state. —  WBALTV.com - Local News
• As the will of the nation, in so far as it contravenes not the law of God or the law of nature, binds every individual of the nation, no individual or number of individuals has, or can have, any right to conspire against him, or to labor to oust him from his place, till his escheat has been pronounced by the voice of the nation. —  The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
• Will the king get the title as well as the estate, brother, if it should escheat, as you call it Being the fountain of honour, he will be rather indifferent about the baronetcy I should care less if it went to the next sovereign, who is English born. —  The Two Admirals
• [731 In litigation to determine succession to property by proceedings in escheat, due process is afforded by personal service of summons upon all known claimants and constructive notice by publication to all claimants who are unknown. —  The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
• Under the regal government, it was the practice with us, when lands passed to the crown by escheat or forfeiture, to grant them to such relation of the party as stood on the fairest ground. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

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