The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The Unionists without the State government, without any State organization, could not hold the domain, which, when the State organization is gone, escheats to the United States, that is to say, ceases to exist.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson
An officer at the exchequer of very ancient establishment, under the lord-treasurer, whose business it is to inform of escheats and casual profits of the crown, and to seize them into the king's hands.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
He was knighted and rewarded: every one almost was rewarded out of Gowrie’s escheats, or forfeited property.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
He went over with this grant in the year 1690, and set up an office in the Neck, claiming some escheats; but he likewise could make nothing of it.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
Peter of Rivaux became keeper of wards and escheats, castellan of many castles on the Welsh march, and the recipient of even more offices and wardships in Ireland than in England.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
