[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Alsoescheatment.the reverting of property to the state or some agency of the state, or, as in England, to the lord of the fee or to the crown, when there is a failure of persons legally qualified to inherit or to claim.", "the right to take property subject to escheat."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to revert by escheat, as to the crown or the state."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to make an escheat of; confiscate."]}]