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What is the noun for escheats?

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escheat
  1. (law) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
  2. (law) The property so reverted.
  3. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
  4. That which falls to one; a reversion or return.
escheator
  1. (England and Wales law) A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The charter also granted one bailiff the powers of king's escheator, with any fines or revenues from escheated goods going towards the farm.”
      “But the land could not be granted again until the lapse of title was officially declared in the office of the escheator.”
      “Sometimes several such writs are addressed at one time to the escheator to inquire into many deaths in the same place.”
escheatage
  1. The right of succeeding to an escheat.
escheatages
  1. plural of escheatage
escheators
  1. plural of escheator
escheats
  1. plural of escheat
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