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Latin. On account of a failure of heirs. A person attainted for treason loses all his civil rights, and his property, heritable and moveable, falls to the Crown. But where a succession to heritage subsequently opens up to the attainted person, from which, by his attainder, he is excluded, it falls, not to the Crown, but to the immediate superior as escheat ob defectum haeredis. The heirs of such a person are excluded from all succession to an ancestor, where the propinquity betwixt the ancestor and them is necessarily connected by the attainted person, or where the attainted person would have succeeded to ...