escheator
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- subescheator noun
Etymology
Origin of escheator
1250–1300; Middle English eschetour < Anglo-French. See escheat, -or 2
Example Sentences
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State escheator Brenda R. Mayrack declined the newspaper’s request for comment.
From Seattle Times
With four great abbeys falling vacant in little over ten years, the royal exchequer reaped a good harvest; and though the payment of a lump sum was better than falling into the hands of the escheator, and though the nuns would make haste to elect a new abbess as soon as possible, a voidance was always a costly matter.
From Project Gutenberg
She was the niece of John de London, late the King’s escheator south of Trent.
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He was Escheator of the Province of Munster.
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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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