Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.

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Title: Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
Author: Rastell, John, d. 1536.
Publication: London :: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For G. Walbanke, S. Heyrick, J. Place, J. Poole, and R. Sare,; 1685.
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Subject terms: Law -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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Escheator.

EScheator is the name of an Officer that observes the Escheats of the King in the County whereof he is Eschea∣tor, and certifies them into the Exchequer. This Officer is appointed by the L. Treasurer, and by Letters Patents from him, and continues in his Of∣fice but one year; neither can any be Escheator but once in three years. An. 1. H. 8. cap. 8. and an. 3 ejusdem cap. 2. See more of this Officer and his Authority, in Crompton's Ju∣stice of Peace. See An. 21 Ed. 1. The form of the Oath of the Es∣cheator see in the Regist. orig. fol. 301. b. And the Escheator is an Officer of Record, and may or∣dain an under-Escheator, as the Sheriff may an under-Sheriff; yet the Escheator cannot return any Office by vertue of his Of∣fice, but he shall be punished. See F. N. B. 100. Office Escae∣triae is the Escheatorship. Reg. orig. fol. 259.