escheator

American  

[es-chee-ter] / ɛsˈtʃi tər /

noun

1. an officer in charge of escheats.

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Other Word Forms

• subescheator noun

Etymology

Origin of escheator

1250–1300; Middle English eschetour < Anglo-French. See escheat, -or ²

Example Sentences

Two years after his death his son Walter obtained the King's precept to his escheator to hand over the lands of his mother's inheritance to him, and shortly afterwards he secured his father's also.

From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)

Mr. Ford Fosdick, a gentleman of the learned profession, very straight of person, and most bland of manners, is what may be called escheator in ordinary to the state.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

The escheator was appointed annually by the Treasurer to administer the Crown's rights in feudal land in the county.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

But the land could not be granted again until the lapse of title was officially declared in the office of the escheator.

From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.

She was the niece of John de London, late the King’s escheator south of Trent.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen