Escheat
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Writ of. [L. Lat. breve de eseata; L. Fr. briefs d'eschete.] A writ which anciently lay for a lord, to recover possession of lands that had escheated to him.
Beg. Grig. 164 b. F. N. B. 143, 144. Termes de la ley, 2 Bl. Com, 246. 3 Id. 194.
Now abolished.
1 St^h, Com. 401, note.