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Example sentences for "escheated"

Lexicographically close words:
eschape; eschar; eschatological; eschatology; escheat; escheator; escheats; eschew; eschewe; eschewed
  1. The family of the count were subsequently reinstated in all his property, fiefs, and rights, which, by virtue of the sentence, had escheated to the royal treasury.

  2. All their possessions, fiefs, and rights escheated to the royal treasury.

  3. But the question occurs: what became of the escheated lands which were ordered to be restored to the original proprietors?

  4. As the Duke was executed for high treason his land escheated to the Crown.

  5. Those guilty of high treason were decapitated and their goods escheated to the crown.

  6. Even the very attainted and escheated lands were challenged by virtue of settlements made before the attainders.

  7. The only reasonable construction must be that Mathew Brown's escheated acres adjoined 300 acres that already constituted Tutter's Neck.

  8. Henry sent over his uncle, the Earl of Salisbury, together with his brother, Prince Richard, to whom he had granted the earldom of Cornwall, which had escheated to the crown.

  9. The real estate, escheated to the government, was not returned until three years later.

  10. Finally, in 1887, the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company was disincorporated by the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker bill, and the funds escheated to the government for the benefit of the common schools of Utah.

  11. John was not part of the confiscated Templar property, all of which escheated to the Order, but was purchased by them early in the reign of Edward I.

  12. In the background is the Chapel Tower with the sunset light upon it] completed at the time of his attainder two years afterwards (1521) and the property escheated in due course as a cell of Crowland Abbey to the crown.

  13. In 1812 commissioners were appointed for the recovery of such escheated property as belonged to the College, the Legislature having granted to it all escheated property for ten years.

  14. The Honour of Hatfield Peverel held by Ranulf Peverel after the Conquest escheated to the crown in the reign of Henry I.

  15. Many of the nobles who set out on the expeditions never returned, and their estates, through failure of heirs, escheated to the Crown; while many more wasted their fortunes in meeting the expenses of their undertaking.

  16. Many of the great nobles also perished in battle with the Infidels, and their lands escheated to their suzerain, whose domains were thus augmented.

  17. Its property never escheated for want of heirs, and, as scutages were passing out of fashion, ecclesiastics were less valuable to the king in times of war than lay lords.

  18. In 1300, on the death of the king's childless cousin, Earl Edmund, the wealthy earldom of Cornwall escheated to the crown.

  19. By a deed of gift made by the king to the artist's son of his father's estate, which had escheated to the crown, we learn that he was not actually a Frenchman, and never even naturalized.

  20. In old Roman law, unclaimed inheritances escheated to the Gentiles.

  21. All the other branches of the family were excluded, and the inheritance escheated to the Gentiles, or entire body of Roman citizens bearing the same name with the deceased.

  22. As to the Arley estate, that was lost to the canons ere another century had elapsed--by 1172 had escheated to the Crown.

  23. Certainly it was sometimes treated as only an escheated or forfeited lay fief would be treated.

  24. His Norman county of Mortain was at once taken in hand by Henry as an escheated fief, and was not filled again until it was given years afterwards to his youngest son.

  25. The number of exiles is variously estimated at fifteen thousand and sixty and sixteen thousand five hundred and eleven; all their property, debts, obligations, mortgages, escheated to the King.

  26. Whole rolls, full of patents relating to their estates, are still remaining in the Tower, which, together with their rents in fee and their mortgages, all escheated to the King.

  27. On the conquest of that duchy he petitioned for the investiture, but Rudolph delayed complying with his request under various pretences, and, Philip dying without issue in 1279, the duchy escheated to the empire as a vacant fief.

  28. The real estate which they had not succeeded in selling, escheated to the king.

  29. Meanwhile the campaign had been continued for the return of the escheated Church property and for the passage of an Enabling Act that should permit the territory to organize for statehood.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escheated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.