The reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner’s dying without legal heirs.
- The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
- The property so reverted.
- Plunder, booty.
- That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
- To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
To revert to the Crown in Demesne (see demesne land of the crown). Land is escheated if the owner of the Freehold dies Intestate and he has no relatives to whom the land might pass by the rules of intestate succession.
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