escheatery
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The medieval English governmental office that recorded escheated property.
— Thomas Singleton, bailiff of the escheatery of the town of Lancaster, rendered account in 1441 of £8 4s. 7d. due from ancient rents and various burgages and plats of land which had escheated to the king as duke from various causes.
词源
A calque from Middle English or Anglo-Norman escheterie; equivalent to escheat + -ery.
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