Crossword-Solution: ESCHEATOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Escheator | n. | An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. |
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| Legal officer in charge of reversions of land | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEECM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ESCHEATOR (5)
The escheator was appointed annually by the Treasurer to administer the Crown's rights in feudal land, which until 1242 had been the responsibility of the sheriff.
There were local courts of the vill, borough, manor, hundred, county, sheriff, escheator, and royal bailiff, with overlapping jurisdictions.
Edward having undertaken to erect a prison—or fortress in disguise—in his episcopal city, the bold Prelate publicly excommunicated the Lord Justice who undertook the work, the escheator who supplied the funds, and all those engaged in its construction, nor did he desist from his opposition until the obnoxious building was demolished.
But being now prevented so by persecution that he cannot bestow them in that other good way that he would have, yet since he parteth from them because he will not part from the faith, though the devil's escheator violently take them from him, yet willingly giveth he them to God.
The rest of the citizens were ordered to return home.(712) (M383) At nine o’clock in the morning of the 1st July, Sir Edward Dalyngrigge appeared in the Guildhall, and there, before an immense assembly of the commons, read the king’s commissions appointing him warden of the city and the king’s escheator.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).