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INTRODUCTION Escheat
INTRODUCTION Escheat
1. The reversion of land ownership back to the lord when the immediate
tenant dies without heirs.
It is not only the tangible property that comes within the ambit of Doctrine
of Escheat or bona vacantia. The word property, when used without any
qualification or limitation, as above, is a term of the widest import.
Objective of the Doctrine of Escheat