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.