As used in this article, the term ‘‘escheat’’ is the reversion of property to the state upon a failure of heirs of a decedent to appear and make claim for or against property owned by the decedent at death for which no other disposition was provided either by will or otherwise. History. — Code 1981, § 53-2-50, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10. 262
Former Title 53 contained no definition of the term ‘‘escheat’’.