Search the scanned history of knowledge.

ESCHEAT (O. Fr. eschete, from escheoir, to fall to one's share; Lat. excidere, to fall out), in English law, the reversion of lands to the next lord on the failure of heirs of the tenant. " When the tenant of an estate in fee simple dies without having alienat ...

... James I. proceeded to plant with English and Scottish colonists the vast tracts escheated to the crown in Ulster, the whole of the arable and pasture land in Armagh, estimated at 77,800 acres, was to have been allotted in sixty-one portions. Nineteen of these, ...

... ounds, such as the disproportion between the offence and the penalty, the moral ESCHEAT— ESCHENMAYER and religious immaturity of the majority of men at death, the diminution of the happiness of heaven involved in the knowledge of the endless suffering of other ...