Appraiser

A person appointed by competent authority to value goods or real estate. An importer is entitled to have a merchant appraiser who is familiar with the character and value of the goods in question, and in a suit brought to recover an excess of duties he may raise the question of want of qualification of the appraiser; Oelbermann v. Merritt, 123 U. S. 356, 8 Sup. Ct 151, 31 L. Ed. 164. As to Board of General, Appraisers, see Customs Duties. As early as Edw. I. the judges were ordered to make provision for appraisers.