escheat
C2Substantiv/US /ˈɛstʃɪt/ ESCHEAT; UK /ˈɛstʃɪt/ ESCHEAT/
The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that
