Lapse vs. Escheat

Lapsenoun

A temporary failure; a slip.

Lapsenoun

A decline or fall in standards.

Lapsenoun

A pause in continuity.

Lapsenoun

An interval of time between events.

Lapsenoun

A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.

Lapsenoun

(meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.

Lapsenoun

(legal) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

Lapsenoun

(theology) A fall or apostasy.

Lapseverb

(intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.

Lapseverb

(intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.

Lapseverb

To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.

Lapseverb

(intransitive) To become void.

Lapseverb

To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.

Lapsenoun

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; - restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.

Lapsenoun

A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

Lapsenoun

The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.

Lapsenoun

A fall or apostasy.

Lapseverb

To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; - mostly restricted to figurative uses.

Lapseverb

To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Lapseverb

To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.

Lapseverb

To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

Lapseverb

To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

Lapsenoun

a mistake resulting from inattention

Lapsenoun

a break or intermission in the occurrence of something;

Lapsenoun

a failure to maintain a higher state

Lapseverb

pass into a specified state or condition;

Lapseverb

end, at least for a long time;

Lapseverb

drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

Lapseverb

go back to bad behavior;

Lapseverb

let slip;

Lapseverb

pass by;

Lapsenoun

a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement

Lapsenoun

a decline from previously high standards

Lapsenoun

the termination of a right or privilege through disuse or failure to follow appropriate procedures.

Lapsenoun

an interval or passage of time

Lapseverb

(of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire

Lapseverb

(of a state or activity) fail to be maintained; come to an end

Lapseverb

cease to follow the rules and practices of a religion or doctrine

Lapseverb

pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition)

Lapseverb

revert to (a previous or more familiar style of speaking or behaviour)

Escheatnoun

(legal) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.

Escheatnoun

(legal) The property so reverted.

Escheatnoun

(obsolete) Plunder, booty.

Escheatnoun

That which falls to one; a reversion or return.

Escheatverb

(transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.

Escheatverb

(intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.

Escheatnoun

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 is, by reason of a felony or attainder.

Escheatnoun

A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.

Escheatnoun

Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.

Escheatnoun

That which falls to one; a reversion or return

Escheatverb

To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.

Escheatverb

To forfeit.

Escheatnoun

a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs

Escheatnoun

the property that reverts to the state

Escheat

Escheat is a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who has died without heirs to the Crown or state. It serves to ensure that property is not left in without recognized ownership.