Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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caduca

[Latin "fallen things"] 1. Civil law. Inheritable property; property descending to an heir. 2. Roman law. Property formerly belonging to an intestate owner who has died without heirs or to someone who has suffered forfeiture for crime. * The property escheated to the state. See ESCHEAT. 3. Roman law. Testamentary gifts that lapse. See LAPSE.

caducary

(Of a bequest or estate) subject to, relating to, or by way of escheat, lapse, or forfeiture of property <the statute was intended to waive the rights of the caducary heirs>.

res caduca

[Latin] Civil law. A fallen thing; an escheat.