[f. ESCHEAT sb. or v. + -AGE.] The right of succeeding to an escheat.

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1611.  Cotgr., Escheatage, the right which a Lord hath in the land of his tenant, dying without heires of his bodie, or bloud.

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1756.  Nugent, Montesquieu’s Spir. Laws, II. XXI. xiii. 54. In those times were established the ridiculous rights of escheatage and shipwrecks.

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1779.  State Papers, in Ann. Reg., 435/2. Exempt from the right of escheatage.

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1828.  in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.

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