Assessor
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An officer chosen or pointed to appraise, value, or assess prope In civil and Scotch law. Persons skilled in law, selected to advise the jul of the inferior courts.
Bell; Dig, 1, 2 Cod. 1, 51.
A person learned in some particular science or industry, who sits with the judge on the trial of a cause requiring such special knowl edge and gives his advice. In England it is the practice in admiralty business to call in assessors, in cases invol¥ing questions of navigation or seamanship. They are called “nautical assessors,” and ara always Brethren of the Trinity House.