单词 | escheatage |
释义 | escheatagen. The right of succeeding to an escheat. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right to acquire property subject to escheat escheat1576 escheatage1611 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1611 |
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