Concealers

[L. Lat. concelatores; from concelando, says Cowell, by antiphrasis; because they did the reverse bf concealing.] In old English law. Detectors or discoverers of concealed landa Persons appointed by letters patent, (termed letters of concealment,) to discover lands, which in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, were suspected of being concealed, that is secretly kept or withheld from the crown. Termes de la ley, Cowell, They are called by Lord Coke turbidum kominum genus, (a troublesome, disturbant sort of men.) 3 Inst, 188.