escheats
- plural of escheat.
Example Sentences
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I have, however, been informed that in valuations under escheats in the old records a separate value is never put upon villeins; their alienation without the land was apparently not contemplated.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
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 Lang, Andrew
He reserved to himself the appointments to all priories and churches, and the military feofs and escheats.
From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah
Moreouer, he declared to the king, that by extortion and briberie of certeine men of great wealth, he lost manie forfeits and escheats.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Holinshed, Raphael
"Názir al-Mawárís," the employé charged with the disposal of legacies and seizing escheats to the Crown when Moslems die intestate.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
