Escheator

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An officer anciently appointed in English counties to look after the escheats of the sovereign and certify them into the treasury.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.