English
escheatery
A calque from Middle English or Anglo-Norman escheterie; equivalent to escheat + -ery.
Formed from escheat + -ery
Proto-Indo-European *ḱád-e-ti
…
Latin cadō ‘fall’
Late Latin *excadēre ‘fall away, fall out’
Anglo-Norman eschete
Middle English escheat ‘the reversion or conversion of property to…’
English escheat
Today it means
noun The medieval English governmental office that recorded escheated property.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / escheatery