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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