Where such property was heirless or unclaimed they had to transfer it to an organisation for the rehabilitation of surviving members of such groups.
Property unclaimed at the end of six months was deemed to be heirless.
In most cases the people concerned are not themselves the depositors but the heirs, and in many cases the property can now presumably be considered as heirless.
Also, if a tanuter died heirless, he was succeeded by a different branch of the family, rather than a noble who was sworn to him.
Heirless still, he repudiated her in 1184, but fell seriously ill and rejoined her.
They either have to adopt from outside (which was regarded by many as passing the family wealth to unrelated outsiders), or become heirless.
He was heirless on his death in 1776.