escheator

escheator (es-cheet-[schwa]r). Hist. A royal officer appointed to assess the value of property escheating to the Crown. • Corrupt officers led many to associate the escheator with fraudulent conduct, giving rise to the word cheat as used in the modern sense. — Also termed cheater.
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