Definition of "escheats" [escheats]

• Plural form of escheat. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of escheat. (verb)

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• "Page 126 lawyer in each county to keep watch on all escheats, that is, roughly, land having no owner."
• "The escheats were a great branch both of power and of revenue, especially during the first reigns after the conquest."
• "Under such an arrangement, legally speaking, Taiwan escheats to the conqueror and principal occupying power as an interim status condition."