Glossary of Personal Injury Law Terms

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Escheat: An assignment of property to the state because there is no verifiable legal owner or beneficiary.

Estate: Everything of value that a person owned at the time of death.

Estate tax: A tax placed on the net value of a decedent's estate at the time of death.

Executor or Executrix: A person named in the decedent's will to serve as the personal representative in probating the decedent's estate.