Escheat

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone.

2. Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.

3. That which falls to one; a reversion or return To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat. Spenser.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To forfeit. Bp. Hall.