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. […]