Meaning & use
Escheator
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Historically, an official appointed to look after property that reverted to the crown or state when an owner died without heirs, known as an escheat.
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In medieval England, the escheator investigated whether the deceased lord had left any legal heirs.
The escheator's records provide historians with valuable details about landholding in the period.
A note on using this word
The office of escheator largely disappeared with modern probate law, but the word survives in legal history and historical fiction set in feudal Europe.
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