escheat

Noun
  1. A reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs (synset 113362608)
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: reversion - (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
  2. The property that reverts to the state (synset 113277498)
    is a type of: transferred possession, transferred property - a possession whose ownership changes or lapses

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