Lucky Bamboo and Symbolic Chinese Number Meanings. The meanings then become a factor of which dialect you are speaking. Fortunately, the regional meanings remain similar in nature and taken together, enrich rather than contradict each other. Instead of one word, a number has several inflections from different dialects.
Escheat definition, the reverting of property to the state or some agency of the state, or, as in England, to the lord of the fee or to the crown, when there is a failure of persons legally qualified to inherit or to claim. See more.
Escheat can still occur in England and Wales, if a person is made bankrupt or a corporation is liquidated. Usually this means that all the property held by that person is 'vested in' (transferred to) the Official Receiver or Trustee in Bankruptcy.