Escaeta
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
I. I.
In old English law
An escheat. Esc%t% vulgo dicuntur quae, decedentibus Ms qui de rege tenant in capite, cum non extat ratione sanguinis haeres, ad flscum relabuntur: those things are commonly called escheats, which, on the death of the king's tenants in capite, without heirs of blood, revert to the iisc, or treasury.