in law, signifies any lands or tenements that casually fall to a lord within his manor, by way of forfeiture, or by the death of his tenant, without any heirs general or special. The word escutcheon is sometimes used for the place or circuit within which the king or other lord is entitled to escutcheons; also for a writ to recover the same from the person in possession after the tenant's death.

Eschaton, in Scots law, is that forfeiture which is incurred upon a person's being denounced a rebel. See Law, Part III. No. clxvi. 12.

Escharakites, in matters of religion, a sect of Mahometans, who believe that man's sovereign good consists in the contemplation of God. They avoid all manner of vice, and appear always in good-humour, despising the sensual paradise of Mahomet. The most able preachers in the royal mosques are of this sect.