escheator

[ es-chee-ter ]

noun

1. an officer in charge of escheats.

Other Words From

• subes·cheator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of escheator¹

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

Example Sentences

Sometimes several such writs are addressed at one time to the Escheator to inquire into many deaths in the same place.

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The audit of the Escheator's accounts for the county of Lincoln proves that the distress was very real.

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King Edward accordingly commanded the mayor of London, his escheator in that city, to take inquisition concerning the premises.

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

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An every liver among them haven't stood me in three and forty shilling, then am I a naughty escheator.

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