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escheat: a standalone construct

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escheat1 CONSTRUCTEscheatMOYNIHAN & KURTZ · 2005

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Property law

Ownerless property reverting to the state

Escheat is the rule by which property reverts to the state (historically, to the feudal lord) when its owner dies without heirs or, formerly, upon certain forfeitures, so that land or assets never remain truly ownerless. Moynihan's Introduction to the law of real property describes escheat as a feature of the feudal system of tenures that survives today chiefly as the state's taking of property left with no one to claim it, a cousin of the modern law of unclaimed property. The referent is the reversion of ownerless property to the sovereign, triggered by the failure of heirs or claimants, and it is a purely legal construct.[1]

Unit
The reversion of property to the state when there is no owner or heir
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Triggered by death without heirs or by property left unclaimed, vesting ownership in the state

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References

  1. Moynihan, C. J., & Kurtz, S. F. (2005). Moynihan's introduction to the law of real property (4th ed.). Thomson/West. ISBN 9780314160485

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