ppl. a. Also 6 Sc. escheit. [f. as prec. + -ED.] Of land, etc.: That has reverted by escheat to the superior lord, the king or the state.
1551. Sc. Acts, Mary, c. 7. The saidis escheit gudis.
1607. Davies, 1st Let. Earl Salisb. (1787), 233. To enquire of all escheated and concealed lands in that county.
1623. Sir T. Crew, in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 118. You have made these ample Endowments of Churches out of your own Excheated Revenue.
1860. Forster, Gr. Remonstr., 30. The lesser proprietors whom grants of escheated honours might newly have created.
