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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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 Purves, D. Laing
King Edward accordingly commanded the mayor of London, his escheator in that city, to take inquisition concerning the premises.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
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.
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)
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.
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