escheats

Page 126 lawyer in each county to keep watch on all escheats, that is, roughly, land having no owner.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

The escheats were a great branch both of power and of revenue, especially during the first reigns after the conquest.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743

Under such an arrangement, legally speaking, Taiwan escheats to the conqueror and principal occupying power as an interim status condition.

How Congress Should Deal with the Taiwan Issue 2007

Hajj Sharmarkay, and amassing treasure by commerce and escheats.

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Edward VI (1547-53) granted to the Corporation all waifs and strays, treasure trove, deodand,9 goods of felons and fugitives, and escheats and forfeitures in the town and borough.

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

It doesn't matter if your taxes are paying for it, or that the University is taking over black man's land through escheats or other things, it doesn't matter.

Oral History Interview with Ashley Davis, April 12, 1974. Interview E-0062. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

Not content with this, in December, 1854, they appointed B.F. Moore, James W. Bryan, President Swain, and, ironically enough, the same Chief Justice Ruffin who had handed down the withering decision in University v. Maultsby, as a committee to memorialize the General Assembly upon the subject of restoring the escheats to the University.

The History of Escheats Blackwell Pierce 1955

Despite the fact that the Board of Trustees had voted in 1927 to allocate all moneys arising from escheats to the student loan fund, President Graham requested authority to transfer the preconsolidation funds for other purposes.

The History of Escheats Blackwell Pierce 1955

Battle further describes the grant of escheats to the University as a right which was "shadowy, uncertain, well nigh in nubibus, but which in the course of time by skillful management brought considerable money into the treasury."

The History of Escheats Blackwell Pierce 1955

In the early days of the University a chief source of revenue from escheats was the lands of residents of foreign birth who left no heirs who were citizens of North Carolina.

The History of Escheats Blackwell Pierce 1955