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Appraiser

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In practice

A person appointed by competent authority to appraise or value goods or real estate. APPREHENSIO (Lat.) In the civil and old English law. A taking hold of a person or thing; apprehension; the seizure or capture of a person. Calv. Lex. One of the varieties or subordinate forms of oecupatio, or the mode of acquiring title to things not belonging to any one. Fleta applies it to the finding of things on the seashore. Fleta, lib.

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