Escheator
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
The name of an officer who was appointed in every county to look after the escheats which fell due to the king in that particular county, year only, and was notre-eligible until three yeurs. There does not appear to exist any such officer at the present day.
Brown. See 10 Vin. Abr. 158; Co. Litt. 138,