escheatage

[ es-chee-tij ]

noun

1. the right of succeeding to an escheat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of escheatage¹

First recorded in 1605–15; escheat + -age

Example Sentences

“Hast not had word that Jersey has enacted a general act of forfeiture and escheatage ’gainst all Royalists?”

From Project Gutenberg

I have no doubt the rag-tag politicians, if not too busy scheming how to cripple General Washington, will set to on some such piece of folly, for by their persecutions and acts of outlawry and escheatage they have driven into Toryism enough to almost offset the Whigs the British plundering has made.

From Project Gutenberg

“I feared it when I read of the passing of a general act of forfeiture and escheatage,” he muttered, “though I still hoped ’t would not extend to them.”

From Project Gutenberg