Cadi
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A Turkish civil magistrate. CADUCA (Lat cadere, to fall). In Civil Law. An inheritance; an escheat; every thing which falls to the legal heir by descent Bona caduca are said to be those to which no heir succeeds, equivalent to escheats.
Du Cange
Glans caduca, "the acorn which has fallen to the ground," is used in a famous judgment of Kekewich, J., in [1902] 1 Ch. 847, where a fund in court belonging to an Austrian intestate, who was a bastard, was held not to go to the Austrian government by the law of Austria, but to the British crown by the law of England.