单词 | caducary |
释义 | caducaryadj. Old Law. Subject to, relating to, or by way of escheat or lapse. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [adjective] > reverted to lord, king, or state > liable or relating to escheatable1611 caduciary1757 caducary1768 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 265 The lord by escheat..is more frequently considered as being ultimus haeres, and therefore taking by descent in a kind of caducary succession. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 512 Whether the escheat be considered as a reversion, as it once was, as a caducary possession ab intestato, as it now substantially is. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1768 |
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