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Definition of Escheatable
1. a. Liable to escheat.
Definition of Escheatable
1. Adjective. Liable to escheat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Escheatable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escheatable
Literary usage of Escheatable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of Judgments of Windward Islands Court of Appeal by William Herbert Greaves (1905)
"... surviving trustee under the will takes an undivided one-third in fee of Belle
Vue, or whether that interest in the estate is escheatable to the Crown. ..."
2. Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: [1790-1854] by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1855)
"Supposing the lands of which he died seised to be escheatable, the State of
Maryland conveyed them to John Charles Francis Chirac, his natural son, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Decided by the Honourable John Marshall, Late Chief Justice by United States Circuit Court (4th Circuit), John Marshall, John White Brockenbrough, Joseph Hopkinson (1837)
"If an alien merchant, who is alone, purchases a house and lot for the purposes
of trade, either in fee, or for life, that house and lot are escheatable; ..."
4. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1884)
"In case the Proprietor's Estate therein be escheatable, he would be glad of
Particular Directions thereto. 1786. November 26th Powhatan county November 27th ..."
5. Equity in Its Relations to Common Law: A Study in Legal Development by William Weldon Billson (1917)
"If equity would operate in some cases to enlarge the escheatable interest ...
Although at law the escheatable interest of the deceased had been curtailed by ..."
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