The state will escheat most dormant bank account after a specied number of years. From LearnThat.org.
Yesterday's term was escheat, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #16] Reference
Because of a practice called escheat, however, that assumption could end up turning your financial life upside down. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
So, they might not get everything they're entitled to, and the unclaimed assets will eventually revert, or "escheat," to the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Mess They Left] Reference
So they are trying to confiscate it under the medieval concept of "escheat". From Wordnik.com. [Cold Fury] Reference
The legal term is called escheat, meaning handing over property to the state. From Wordnik.com. [WBALTV.com - Local News] Reference
In the escheat at her death she is thus described. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference
She got a warning letter about the escheat and wrote right back. From Wordnik.com. [Go Jump In A Lake] Reference
We will hold the ` escheat 'in the same manner as the baron held it. From Wordnik.com. [The Magna Carta] Reference
"You dare not escheat his estates yet," replied the prior stubbornly. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
All unclaimed overcharges, he claimed, would escheat to the University. 15. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
This represents the largest single estate to escheat to this institution thus far. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
This sum came largely from the escheat of the estate of E.L. Carter of Forsyth County. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
He recommended that this section be amended to ensure that these funds escheat to the University. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
If so, did she leave issue? semble not, and assuming her to have no direct heirs, the estate would escheat. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference
It also vested in the Trustees "all the property that has heretofore or shall hereafter escheat to the state.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
And upon refusal of said bond, they were to be put to the horn, and their escheat or forfeiture given to their masters. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
Miller, the Court invalidated an Oregon escheat law that operated to prevent inheritance by citizens of Communist countries. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Forgot to Bring Her Copy of the Constitution to her Interview with Katie Couric, Failing to Challenge her, Katie Must Have Misplaced Her's Too] Reference
In another letter, he observes -- "The King has been pleased, this very day, to give me a gift of all Fraserdale's escheat.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Under this plan, escheat matters would be largely worked out and handled by the business office of the University at Chapel Hill. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
Lord knew where; or, what was worse, it should escheat. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Admirals] Reference
The funds will then be turned over to New York's escheat division. From Wordnik.com. [Ventura County Star Stories] Reference
Goltres, in fact, was escheat, and granted out to Prosper's brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
Madonna Suever of Oregon found out about the perils of escheat first hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
This was at one time an escheat of the King, who gave it to his valet, Simon. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
The estate would escheat to the king, Hanoverian or Scotchman, before it came to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Admirals] Reference
All Contributions not used for the S.ecific Campaign must escheat to the U.S. Treasury. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
Our Government should therefore be liberal in taking possession of the estate as an escheat. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference
I am informed, she is the owner of some slaves by escheat, and has sold none, but liberated all. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863] Reference
He had proclaimed that all landed estates should, in lack of heirs male, escheat to his own exchequer. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Slavery did not escheat to the English government upon the expiration of its authority in North America. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Even the outright repeal of the former does not wipe out the latter or cause them to escheat to the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
But if the owner's address is wrong or he or she simply doesn't open the letter, the escheat process begins. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
Confiscation of lands as punishment, or as expiation of offence; escheat at Daika; punishment under Tokugawa. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
He offers to furnish surety on this behalf, and if M. Casanova does you wrong, his bail will escheat to you as damages. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
You have only to select an heir, when I am gone, and by making a will, with proper devises, the property will not escheat. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Admirals] Reference
A treaty stipulation may be effectual to protect the land of an alien from forfeiture by escheat under the laws of a State. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
In case a master died without lawful heirs, his slaves did not escheat, but were regarded as other personal estate or property. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
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