caduciaryadj.
/kəˈdjuːʃ(ɪ)əri/ 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
1757 J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. ii. 76 To prevent his inheritance from being caduciary.
1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 127 (note) The L. [Lex] Iulia et Papia Poppaea.., whose caduciary provisions were often spoken of under the name of Lex caducaria.
Derivatives
caˈduciarily adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [adverb] > by way of escheat or lapse
caduciarily1880
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 504 Failure to take under a testament... The inheritance went to the heir-at-law caduciarily.
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adj.1757