APPOSER

apposer (<<schwa>>-pohz-<<schwa>>r).Hist. 1. A questioner; interrogator. 2. An Exchequer

officer who ex-amined sheriffs’ accounts; specif., an officer responsible for examining the sheriff’s

estreat  (book  of  fines),  comparing  the  entries  with  those  in  court  records,  and  apposing

(interrogating)  the  sheriff  on  each  sum  in  the  estreat.  •  This  office was  abolished  in  England  in

1833. — Also termed foreign apposer. [Blacks Law 8th]