Unclaimed bank funds fall under so-called " escheat laws " that vary from state to state but typically require that such funds be turned over to the state.
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Bordering the banks of the Gironde estuary, this small town was for centuries a principality, as it acquired after the Hundred Years War, but ended up losing by escheat.
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The principal incidents of a seignory were an oath of fealty, a quit or chief rent; a relief of one year's quit rent, and the right of escheat.
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The ruling in " Late Corporation " would have directed federal escheat of substantially all the property of the legally disincorporated LDS Church, which was estimated at $ 3 million.
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Do the same inquiring legal minds need to look up equal ( it means " equal " ) and escheat ( reversion of property to the state on the owner's death )?
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On the accession of James VII of Scotland, he made Dumbarton Commander of the Armed Forces in Scotland, and granted him the escheat of the forfeited estates of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun.
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In 1803, members of this Movement won seats in the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, but their attempts to set in motion the escheat scheme were blocked by the British government.
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This is the main difference between escheat and " bona vacantia ", as in the latter, a grant takes place automatically, with no need to'complete'the transaction.
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This practice was considered detrimental to the great lords, since it deprived them to a certain extent the fruits of their tenure, such as escheats, marriages, wardships and the like ."
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It was clear that no such statute was ever needed in Michigan or in any of the western states, because no possibility of reverter or escheat in the party converying an estate ever existed.
