A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
Law) Defn: An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them.
Martin's undue partiality for his own family the Colonna, by escheats which they flew to arms to avenge.
Application of a tierce of all escheats to the use of public works.
Instead, it escheats to its lord, or in his default, to the King.
The Sheriffs, by their counsel, shall approve and let to farm such wards and escheats as they think most profitable for the King.
The wards and escheats of the King shall be surveyed yearly by three people assigned by the King.
How many and what demesne manors the King has in his hand in every county, as well, to wit, of ancient demesnes of the crown, as of escheats and purchases.
And all escheats of barons, which were in the hand of the lord the King, paid their share.
Therefore, if there be no other claimant upon an inheritance than such illegitimate child, it escheats to the lord.
And hence, if a bastard purchase land, and die seised therefor without issue and intestate, the land escheats to the lord of the fee.
But his officers, under pretence of wardship, took possession of lands not held immediately of the crown, claimed escheatswhere a right heir existed, and seized estates as forfeited which were protected by the statute of entails.
I have, however, been informed that in valuations under escheats in the old records a separate value is never put upon villeins; their alienation without the land was apparently not contemplated.
The king had indisputably a right to the wardship of his tenants in chivalry, and to the escheats or forfeitures of persons dying without heirs or attainted for treason.
When escheats occur, the holding cannot be found; when rents are overdue, distraint is impossible, because the bailiff does not know on whom to distrain.
When it is being said that if land in the borough escheats, it always escheats to the king, the mesne tenures are already being forgotten within the borough, just as in modern times we have forgotten them in the open country.
All escheats of private estates, but no public or general escheats.
Hence, the feudal baron is invested with his fief by the suzerain, holds it from him, and to him it escheats when forfeited or vacant.
Lawyers, indeed, tell us that the eminent domain is in the particular State, and that all escheats are to the State, not to the United States.
But besidesescheats from default of heirs, those which ensued from crimes or breach of duty towards the superior lord were frequent in ancient times.
The escheats were a great branch both of power and of revenue, especially during the first reigns after the conquest.
The escheats were a great branch both of power and of revenue, especially during the first reigns after the Conquest.
But besides escheats from default of heirs, those which ensued from crimes, or breach of duty towards the superior lord, were frequent in ancient times.
To amend the Act concerning escheats and forfeitures.
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