Escheat
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
WRIT OF. A writ which anciently lay for a lord, to recover possession of lands that had escheated to him.
Reg. Orig. 164b; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 143; Termes de la Ley; 2 Bl. Comm. 245; 3 Bl. Comm. 194.
Now abolished.
1 Steph. Comm. 401, note.