Citations:escheat

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English citations of escheat

  • 1847 — The old reproach of the father’s disloyalty still clung to the son and Garcilasso assures us that this circumstance defeated all his efforts to recover the large inheritance of landed property belonging to his mother, which had escheated to the Crown. — William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru, Book 2