Originally Posted by
allodial
It could be said that in practicing witchcraft and sorcery, those who do so make tacit admission that the universe doesn't respond to them the way the universe responds to the sons and daughters of God.
Escheats is the reversion of property to the state (commons?) in absence of heirs and is supposed to only occur in that case. However, consider 1666 ...destruction visited England, diverse doctrine having crept in, heirs wiped out by plagues, fires, or, simply rounded up and sent to America in ships: presumed dead and/or lost at sea. Obviously, someone knew who the heirs were or those kinds of tactics would have been unnecessary.
Escheats isn't supposed to involve prosecution of war, but simply patience over time and honest witness. Wartime tactics have seemed to creep in when witness tampering is deemed necessary by a devious non-heir. WWI, WII and the aftermath of WWII saw the death of millions of orthodox Christians (allegedly regarded by Hitler to be "Jews" right along with orthodox Jews).
Those operating under covenants of death, covins, death cults or unlawful corporations then may have in some capacity alienated themselves from status of the living. Consider brown-skinned people being coerced into declaring themselves "civilly dead" ("negroes"--nothing to do with skin color) and the 'requirement' that 'everyone' has to carry ID that carries an odor and prima facie corporate status (i.e. civil-death): is presumed death all about 'leveling the playing field' in some fashion?
People vs fictions: seems the universe responds morseo to the living.
Consider horn as one trying to 'force' the whole earth into 'escheats' by killing off the heirs so the horn can have it all (In the Wizard of Oz, Ms. Gulch (witch) wanted "TOTO!" (Everything)).