universal inheritance

A system by which an intestate’s estate escheats to the state only if the decedent leaves no surviving relatives, no matter how distant.

• Universal inheritance has been abandoned in almost all Anglo-American jurisdictions. See UNIVERSAL-INHERITANCE RULE.

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