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.

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