escheat (eschet)

[ no escheat on failure of the whole blood wherever there are collateral kindred capable of inheriting; and in the United States there can be no escheat to any private person. There is no more certain argument that lands are held under any as lord than if we see that such lands in defect of heirs do fall by escheat unto him. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. 2. All Lands in his Monarchie are his, giuen and taken at his pleasure. Escheats are many by reason reaso of his seueri tie. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 545. To the high honor of Kentucky, as I am informed, she is the owner of some slaves by escheat , and has sold none, but liberated all. Lincoln , in Raymond, p. 202. 2. In England, the place or circuit within which the king or lord is entitled to escheats.-3. A writ to recover escheats from the person in po e ion.-4. The po e ions which fall to the lord or state by escheat. God is the supreme Lord, to whom these escheats devolve, and the poor are his receivers. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, iv. 8. The profits which came in to the king in his character of feudal lord, the reliefs, the escheats , the aids. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, V. 295. 5t. That which falls to one; a reversion or return. To make one great by others lo e is bad excheat. Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 25.