escheatage
(ɛsˈtʃiːtɪdʒ)
[f. escheat n. or v. + -age.]
The right of succeeding to an escheat.
| 1611 Cotgr., Escheatage, the right which a Lord hath in the land of his tenant, dying without heires of his bodie, or bloud. 1756 Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws II. xxi. xiii. 54 In those times were established the ridiculous rights of escheatage and shipwrecks. 1779 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 435/2 Exempt from the right of escheatage. 1828 in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |