Escheats is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 244 anagrams from letters in escheats (aceehsst).
1250-1300; Middle English eschete Old French eschete, escheoite, feminine past participle of escheoir Vulgar Latin *excadēre to fall to a person's share, equivalent to Latin ex- Examples for escheats
The law of escheat relates to the property of a citizen who dies without heirs, near or remote, and without a will. It will be remembered, also, that the animals which the Scotch law forfeited were escheat to the king. In case a master died without lawful heirs, his slaves did not escheat, but were regarded as other personal estate or property. And we will hold the escheat in the same manner in which the baron held it. “You dare not escheat his estates yet,” replied the prior stubbornly. Chamberlain wrote on January 10, 1608, to escheat of Sherborne. Slavery did not escheat to the English government upon the expiration of its authority in North America. And the estates of the rebels, they escheat to the temples of the insulted gods? The Collector called upon the Hindus to put the Siva temple in order within a year, on pain of its being treated as an escheat. But instances of escheat do not occur perhaps twice in a century in any State, and, consequently, is of trifling moment.
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