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escheator
[ es-chee-ter ]
noun
- an officer in charge of escheats.
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Other Words From
- subes·cheator noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of escheator1
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Example Sentences
Sometimes several such writs are addressed at one time to the Escheator to inquire into many deaths in the same place.
The audit of the Escheator's accounts for the county of Lincoln proves that the distress was very real.
King Edward accordingly commanded the mayor of London, his escheator in that city, to take inquisition concerning the premises.
But the land could not be granted again until the lapse of title was officially declared in the office of the escheator.
An every liver among them haven't stood me in three and forty shilling, then am I a naughty escheator.
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