escheatage

American

[es-chee-tij] / ɛsˈtʃi tɪdʒ /

noun

the right of succeeding to an escheat.

Etymology

Origin of escheatage

First recorded in 1605–15; escheat + -age

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“Hast not had word that Jersey has enacted a general act of forfeiture and escheatage ’gainst all Royalists?”

From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford

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