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Definition of Escheators
1. escheator [n] - See also: escheator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escheators
Literary usage of Escheators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1876)
"Mode of appointment and of removal of escheators, ami of securing their ...
Mode of removal of escheators in England. By judgment of a competent court upon ..."
2. The Royal Government in Virginia, 1624-1775 by Percy Scott Flippin, Wallace Everett Caldwell (1919)
"... if no one claimed the land, a patent was issued to the petitioner selected
from those applying for the land.5 There were four escheators in the colony, ..."
3. The Government of England: Its Structure and Its Development by William Edward Hearn (1887)
"Such were the Statutes of escheators (29 Ed. I.) which related to lands taken
into the King's hands upon inquisitions held under * Legis vigorem habet ..."
4. The History and Principles of the Law of Evidence as Illustrating Our Social by John George Phillimore (1850)
"... and if the clamours of masters of requests, escheators, and clerks had prevailed,
the Court of Wards and Liveries would have been standing to this day. ..."
5. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England). (1900)
"... and without molestation, perturbation, grievance, or contradiction of us, our
heirs or successors, or of any sheriffs, escheators, 5 bailiffs, officers, ..."
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