The inquisitor-general presided, with aid of six or seven counsellers nominated by the king; and his officers were a fiscal (or quasi prosecuting attorney), two secretaries, a receiver, two relators, a secuestrador (or escheator), and officials. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Meanwhile President Frank Porter Graham presented to the Board in September, 1932, a recommendation for a legislative act requiring all clerks of the court to report to the escheator and that unclaimed freight and bank deposits be also reported to him. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
No inquiry was made immediately after his death as to the lands of which he died seised; but about eleven months afterwards, a commission was issued to the feodor and deputy-escheator of Oxfordshire, pursuant to which an inquisition was taken on the 11th of April 1633, at. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
A feodary, I should observe, was an officer of the Court of Wards, who was joined with the escheator and did not act singly; I conceive therefore that Shakspeare by this expression indicates an associate; one in the same plight as others; negatively, one who does not stand alone. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference
IV. bore the office tt of escheator of the counties of Warwick and Leicester. From Wordnik.com. [Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
But the land could not be granted again until the lapse of title was officially declared in the office of the escheator. From Wordnik.com. [Beginnings of the American People] Reference
Two years after his death his son Walter obtained the King's precept to his escheator to hand over the lands of his mother's inheritance to him, and shortly afterwards he secured his father's also. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
Colonel Byrd was fortunately escheator as well as receiver, and the lapse of his own title was not declared until 1701, when the same tract was immediately repatented to Nathaniel Harrison, who straightway transferred it to his neighbor and very good friend, the original patentee. From Wordnik.com. [Beginnings of the American People] Reference
Already wealthy and influential, in 1687 he went to London and secured, through the favor of William Blathwayt, the office of receiver-general of the customs, to which was attached the office of escheator; offices, among the most important in the colony, which he held until his death. From Wordnik.com. [Beginnings of the American People] Reference
A.D.), before William Bolle, escheator, it was shewn that “Ralph de. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
A writ was issued in 1641, directing the escheator of Berkshire "to inquire after the death of William. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference
Any indebtedness against any bank which has been established or recognized as a valid liability of said bank before it went into liquidation, for which no claimant has filed claim, and/or any liability for which claim has been filed and disapproved, shall be listed in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the bank is located, by the liquidating agent, and the dividends accruing thereto shall be paid to the escheator of the University of North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Escheats] Reference
They broadened the franchise by giving the right to vote to all freemen; they gave the voters representation in the county courts in assessing taxes; they put an end to self-perpetuating vestries; they fixed the fees of sheriffs, collectors, and other officials; they made it illegal for sheriffs to serve more than one year at a time; no person could hold two of the offices of sheriff, clerk of the court, surveyor, or escheator at the same time; members of the Council were barred from sitting on the county courts. From Wordnik.com. [Bacon's Rebellion, 1676] Reference
Gestingthorpe over to the royal escheator. 81. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
1645, and who, during Berkeley's administration, was escheator-general of Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Caroline County, Virginia] Reference
London, before William Purchase, mayor, and escheator for the king. From Wordnik.com. [Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London] Reference
Agents derived from nouns without change, take er, except escheator, aenator, suitor, preceptor: and some contrasted words; as, debtor, creditor, grantor, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
Captain John Chichester, the younger son, Fe - bruary 1st, 16/8, was made custos rotulorum of the county of Tyrone, and July 1st, 16/9, escheator general of the Province of Ulster, but being an officer in King William's army, died in \6SQ, in the camp at Dundalk. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
1270; (426) it appointed the mayor one of the justices at the gaol delivery of Newgate, as well as the king’s escheator of felon’s goods within the city; it gave the citizens the right of devising real estate within the city; it restored to them all the privileges they had enjoyed before the memorable Iter of the last reign; and granted to them a monopoly of markets within a circuit of seven miles of the city. (. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
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