escheator
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of escheator
1250–1300; Middle English eschetour < Anglo-French. See escheat, -or 2
Example Sentences
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Tyrwhitt, founding on the reference to the Wife of Bath, places this among Chaucer's latest compositions; and states that one Peter de Bukton held the office of king's escheator for Yorkshire in 1397.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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 S. A. Reilly
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 C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
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 William E. Dodd
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 F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
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