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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
, The returning of a feud to the Crown (now called escheat), or of a fee to the lord granting it; or, in modern times, of any property to the grantor of a common-law estate in it after the determination of the estate. The residue of the estate, left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out of it by him.