escheat
n.重还,归还,承受转归领主的土地
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动词过去式:escheated 过去分词:escheated 现在分词:escheating 第三人称单数:escheats 形容词:escheatable
escheat
n[C]AmE law[
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;Origin: eschete, from escheoir
'to fall, be given to another', from
Latin cadere
'to fall']
a legal process in which someone's money and property are given to the state after they die if they do not have a
will, or if there is nobody else with a legal right to receive their money or property