a. Old Law. [ad. L. cadūcārius relating to bona cadūca lapsed possessions, See CADUCOUS and -ARY.] Subject to, relating to, or by way of escheat or lapse.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. 245. The lord by escheat … is more frequently considered as being ultimus haeres, and therefore taking by descent in a kind of caducary succession.
1818. Cruise, Digest, III. 452. Whether the escheat were considered as a reversion, as it once was, or as a caducary succession ab intestato, as it then substantially was.
