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Escheator

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In American law

An officer appointed to take charge of escheated estates, sometimes termed escheator general.

Purdan's (Pa.) Digest, 342. Bev, Code of Mississippi, 1824. 4 Kent's Com. 425, note.