Definitions for escheator

escheator es·cheat·or

Spelling: [es-chee-ter]
IPA: /ɛsˈtʃi tər/

Escheator is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 746 anagrams from letters in escheator (aceehorst).

Definitions for escheator

noun

  1. an officer in charge of escheats.

Origin of escheator

1250-1300; Middle English eschetour Anglo-French. See escheat, -or2

Examples for escheator

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

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

The county offices were: sheriff, coroner, escheator, and constable or bailiff.

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.

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