Scrutator
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
An officer who guarded the king’s rights in flotsam, jetsam, wreck, and the like.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat In old English law. A searcher or baillff of a river; a water-bailiff, whose business was to look to the king's rights, as hls wrecks, hls flotsam, jetsam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
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In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a bailiff whose business was to look to the king's rights in wrecks, flotsam, jetsam, etc.