Approver
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In old English law
The bailiff of a lord in his franchise.
Stat. 9 Hen. VI., c. 10. Cowell.
The king's approvers were those that had the letting of the king's demesnes in small manors, to his best advantage.
Stat. 51 Hen. III., st. 5.
Sheriffs were sometimes called the king's approvers.
Stat. 1 Edw. III., c. 8. Cowell. Blount.
The word was sometimes written improver.
Blount.