Approver
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
In English law
A person, who being indicted of a capital crime upon arraignment, before plea pleaded, and with a view to obtaining a pardon, confessed the crime charged and was then permitted to reveal his accomplices, v. Approvement; Probator.
In old English law
The bailiff of a lord in his franchise. The king's approvers were those who had the letting of his demesnes in small manors. Sheriffs were sometimes called the king's approvei-s. Sometimes written emprover.