escheatagen.
/ɛsˈtʃiːtɪdʒ/ The right of succeeding to an escheat.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escheatage, the right which a Lord hath in the land of his tenant, dying without heires of his bodie, or bloud.
1756 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws II. xxi. xiii. 54 In those times were established the ridiculous rights of escheatage and shipwrecks.
1779 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 435/2 Exempt from the right of escheatage.
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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