Noun

• S: (n) escheat (a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs)
• domain category
• S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) reversion ((law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee))
• S: (n) escheat (the property that reverts to the state)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) transferred property, transferred possession (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)
• S: (n) possession (anything owned or possessed)
• S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))