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Escheat Reversion of monies or securities to the state in which the securityholder was last known to reside, when no claim by the securityholder has been made after a certain period of time fixed by state law. This is known as the holding period or cut-off date. Escheat The acquisition of property by a state or government from the estate of a deceased person. An escheat occurs when the deceased person has no will, no relatives, and no survivors to whom the property would otherwise go. Because it is rare for a person to have no relatives at all, escheats are fairly unusual. The concept has its origins in feudalism, when the immediately superior feudal lord would inherit property that would otherwise be left without an owner. Different states have different laws governing escheats.
escheat The reversion of property to the state because of the lack of anyone to inherit it. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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280) The Court held that the extreme impact of the statute on the economic value of the property in question was not outweighed by the reciprocity of advantage to the heirs and the tribe from maintaining any escheatable interests in the tribe, or consolidating Indian lands in the tribe. New Jersey: The "contacts" test as applied in this field is not really any workable test at all--it is simply a phrase suggesting that this Court should examine the circumstances surrounding each particular item of escheatable property on its own peculiar facts and then try to make a difficult, often quite subjective, decision as to which State's claim to those pennies or dollars seems to be stronger than another's. 234, 243-45 (1997) (focusing on escheatable fractional interest); Dolan v. |
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