(Seneschallus), derived from the German sein, “a house or place,” and seale, “an officer,” is a steward, and signifies one who has the dispensing of justice, as the high seneschal or steward of England; seneschal de la hôtel de roi, “steward of the king’s household” (Co. Lit. 61; Croke’s Jurist. 102; Kitch. 83).