escheatage
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
escheatage (countable and uncountable, plural escheatages)
- The right of succeeding to an escheat.
- 1664, James Howell, Proedria-Basilike:
- their goods are not subject to droit Aubaine, that is , they do not fall by Escheatage to the King as other strangers goods do in some Countries
References edit
- “escheatage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.