(transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
(intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.
Esimerkit
Approching, with bold words and bitter threat, / Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high / To leaue to him that Lady for excheat, / Or bide him battell without further treat.