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n

The transfer of property to government ownership when its owner dies without a will or any heirs; property that is so transferred.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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