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Exactor

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civil law. A gatherer or receiver of money; a collector of taxes.

Cod. 10, 19.

In old English law

A collector of the publlc moneys; a tax gatherer. Thus, exactor regis was the name of the king's tax collector, who took up the taxes and other debts due the treasury.