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Escheat, writ of

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

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