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单词 escheat
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Definition of escheat in English:

escheat

noun ɛsˈtʃiːtɪsˈtʃiːtəsˈtʃit
mass nounhistorical
  • 1The reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs.

    (财产主人死后若无法定继承人)财产的转归国家(或领主)

    the Crown's right of escheat was lost
    count noun they totally abolished escheats
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The chief lord may not demand from the tenant any relief, ward, marriage or other service, but only payment of the rent, nor may he have any other profit from the property except escheat when the law allows it.
    • Taking just one example, intestacy laws (which provide for inheritance in the absence of a will) were designed to prevent escheat of property to the state and to give effect to what would most likely have been a deceased's wishes.
    1. 1.1count noun An item of property affected by escheat.
      转归国家(或领主)的财产
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It seems that the stock of royal lands was dwindling faster than it was being replenished by forfeitures and reversions to the Crown (escheats).
verb ɛsˈtʃiːtɪsˈtʃiːtəsˈtʃit
[no object]historical
  • 1(of land) revert to a lord or the state by escheat.

    (土地)(因无法定继承人而)转归领主(或国家)

    a private chase which had escheated to the King
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later Edward III interpolated a royal claim for it, on the basis that the Templar lands had escheated to the crown.
    • The Superior Court of Los Angeles County concluded that the property purchased by Fujii had escheated to the State.
    • However, he died a few months later, and the wardship of his three-year-old son, Roger, and his estate, escheated to the king.
    Synonyms
    be returned
    1. 1.1usually as adjective escheatedwith object Hand over (land) as an escheat.
      使(无人继承之土地)转归国家(或领主)
      a number of escheated royal honours
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is in sharp contrast with France, for example, where during these same centuries the French kings were keeping a tight hold on escheated lands.
      • The charter also granted one bailiff the powers of king's escheator, with any fines or revenues from escheated goods going towards the farm.
      • States usually publish a list of names of individuals whose property has been escheated.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French eschete, based on Latin excidere 'fall away', from ex- 'out of, from' + cadere 'to fall'.

  • cheat from Late Middle English:

    This started out as a shortening of escheat, a legal term for the reverting of property to the state when the owner dies without heirs. As an extension of this, the word came to mean ‘to confiscate’, and then ‘to deprive someone of something unfairly’. Finally, the senses ‘to practise deception’ and ‘to try to get an advantage by breaking the rules’ came to the fore.

Rhymes

accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of escheat in US English:

escheat

nounəsˈtʃitəsˈCHēt
historical
  • 1The reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs.

    (财产主人死后若无法定继承人)财产的转归国家(或领主)

    the Crown's right of escheat was lost
    count noun they totally abolished escheats
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Taking just one example, intestacy laws (which provide for inheritance in the absence of a will) were designed to prevent escheat of property to the state and to give effect to what would most likely have been a deceased's wishes.
    • The chief lord may not demand from the tenant any relief, ward, marriage or other service, but only payment of the rent, nor may he have any other profit from the property except escheat when the law allows it.
    1. 1.1 An item of property affected by escheat.
      转归国家(或领主)的财产
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It seems that the stock of royal lands was dwindling faster than it was being replenished by forfeitures and reversions to the Crown (escheats).
verbəsˈtʃitəsˈCHēt
[no object]historical
  • 1(of land) revert to a lord or the state by escheat.

    (土地)(因无法定继承人而)转归领主(或国家)

    a private chase which had escheated to the King
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, he died a few months later, and the wardship of his three-year-old son, Roger, and his estate, escheated to the king.
    • The Superior Court of Los Angeles County concluded that the property purchased by Fujii had escheated to the State.
    • Later Edward III interpolated a royal claim for it, on the basis that the Templar lands had escheated to the crown.
    Synonyms
    be returned
    1. 1.1usually as adjective escheatedwith object Hand over (land) as an escheat.
      使(无人继承之土地)转归国家(或领主)
      a number of escheated royal honors
      Example sentencesExamples
      • States usually publish a list of names of individuals whose property has been escheated.
      • The charter also granted one bailiff the powers of king's escheator, with any fines or revenues from escheated goods going towards the farm.
      • This is in sharp contrast with France, for example, where during these same centuries the French kings were keeping a tight hold on escheated lands.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French eschete, based on Latin excidere ‘fall away’, from ex- ‘out of, from’ + cadere ‘to fall’.

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