Spacetime as Escrow Bookkeeping: A Conceptual Translation of General Relativity into the Static Entropy Escrow Vocabulary

We recast four standard results of general relativity—gravitational time dilation, the Tolman temperature law, the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy, and Jacobson's (1995) thermodynamic derivation of the Einstein equations—in the vocabulary of the static gravitational entropy escrow framework 1. A single ratio, Sesc = |Ugrav|/TU (gravitational binding energy over local Unruh temperature), reproduces all four: it equals the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of a Schwarzschild horizon exactly, supplies the entropy flux in Jacobson's first law, and governs the Tolman redshift. No underlying physics is modified; the contribution is interpretive—a thermodynamic re-reading, not a new equation of motion. We are explicit about the limits: |Ugrav| takes regime-specific forms not yet unified by a single covariant construction, and TU appears in two conventions related by the Tolman shift, so the unification is exact at the algebraic level S = |U|/T but only partial as a single observable. Lattice tests 2 recover the Bisognano–Wichmann asymptote partially in 1+1D (with an unexplained 1/30 prefactor) and show a qualitatively different form in 3+1D. Deriving that prefactor from first principles is the open calculation that would turn this conceptual synthesis into a constraining proposal.