Escheat is valid Scrabble Word

Is escheat a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is escheat valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for ESCHEAT in dictionary:

VERB:

to make an escheat of, also EXCHEAT
(of land) revert to a lord or the state by escheat
hand over (land) as an escheat
To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
To forfeit.
attain such property

NOUN:

the reversion of property to the state or crown in case of no legal heirs
an item of property affected by escheat.
possessions that become state property in the absence of an heir
The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.

The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
That which falls to one; a reversion or return
a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
the property that reverts to the state
the reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to confiscate

Words related to ESCHEAT

escheatable18 escheatage16 escheated15 escheating16 escheator14 escheators15 escheats13 excheat19

Words that contain ESCHEAT

escheats13 escheated15 escheator14 escheatage16 escheating16 escheators15 escheatable18 escheatages17 escheatment18 escheatments19

How to use ESCHEAT in a sentence

They only escheat to the United States in failure of this.
On the death of John the Scot without heirs in 1237, the palatinate of Randolph of Blundeville became a royal escheat.
Our Government should therefore be liberal in taking possession of the estate as an escheat.
To the high honor of Kentucky, as I am informed, she has been the owner of some slaves by escheat and has sold none, but liberated all.

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