cheated
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Claims Services that scour public databases in search of so-called escheated funds — money that's gone unclaimed — and then charge a commission to serve as go-between in getting the cash.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2014
“Generally, it takes months for the state to process and actually remit escheated property back to the district,” said Mark Harris, director of accounts payable at the Los Angeles Unified School District.
From BusinessWeek • Jun. 29, 2011
In 1925 Laborer Comincio died, leaving no will, no heir, and $900 in the bank which duly escheated to New York State.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady Nithisdale determined to return, at all risks, to Scotland; and it was, perhaps, from her care in concealing the important documents to which she refers, that the estates were not escheated.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Thomson, Mrs.
As the Duke was executed for high treason his land escheated to the Crown.
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
