Receiver

A receiver is an indifferent person between the parties appointed by the court to collect and receive the rente, lasues, and profits of land or the produce of personal estate or other things which it does not scem reasonable to the court that either party should do; or where a party is incompetent to do so, as in the case of an infant The remedy of the appointment of a receiver is one of the very oldest in the court of chancery, and is founded on the inadequacy of the remedy to be obtained in the court of ordinary jurisdiction. Bisp. Eq. § 576. See Hay v. McDaniel, 26 Ind. App. 683, 60 N. E. T29; Hale v. Hardon, 95 Fed. 773, 37 C. O. A. 240; Wiswall v. Kunz, 173 III. 110, 50 N. E. 184; State v. Gambs, 68 Mo. 297: Nevitt v. Woodburn, 190 111. 283, 60 N. E. 500; Kennedy v. Railroad Co.. (C. C.) 3 Fed. 103. One who receives money to the use of another to render an account. Story, Eq. Jur. § 446.

In criminal law. One who receives stolen goods from thieves, and conceals them. Cowell. This was always the prevalent sense of the word in the common as well as the civil law.

— Receiver general of the duchy of Lancaster. An officer of the duchy court, who collects all the revenues, fines, forfeifures, and assessments within the duchy.

— Receiver general of the public revenne. In English law. An officer appointed in every county to receive the taxes granted by parliament, and remit the money to the treasury.

— Receiver of fines. An English officer who receives the money from persons who compound with the crown on original writs sued out of chancery. Wharton.

— Receivers and triers of petitions. The mode of receiving and trying petitions to parliament was formerly judicial rather than legislative, and the triers were committees of prelates, peers, and judges, and, latterly, of the members generally. Brown.

— Receiver's certificate. A non-negotiable evidence of debt, or debenture, issued by authority of a court of chancery, as a first lien upon the property of a debtor corporation in the hands of a receiver. Beach, Rec. § 379.

— Receivers of wreck. Persons appointed by the English board of trade. The duties of a receiver of wreck are to take steps for the preservation of any vessel stranded or in distress within his district; to receive and take possession of all articles washed on shore from the vessel; to use force for the suppression of plunder and disorder; to institute an examination on oath with respect to the vessel'; and, if necessary, to sell the vessel, cargo, or wreck. Sweet.