<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also escheatment.</li><li>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.</li><li>The right to take property subject to escheat.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) To revert by escheat, as to the crown or the state.</li><li>(Used with object) To make an escheat of; confiscate.</li></ul>