escheat

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs

Escheat in a sentence

Failure to perform duties opened the culprit to charges of ‘felony’ (felonia), providing grounds for the king to escheat the fief.

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