Definition of Receiptor

1. n. One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.

Definition of Receiptor

1. Noun. (legal) One who receipts for property taken by the sheriff. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Receiptor

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Receiptor

recco
reccos
reccy
reccying
recede
receded
recedes
receding
receding(a)
recedingly
receed
receipt
receipted
receipting
receiptless
receiptor (current term)
receiptors
receipts
receit
receiue
receiued
receiv'd
receivability
receivable
receivables
receival
receivals
receive
received
receivedness

Literary usage of Receiptor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"erty allows it to go back into, or to remain in, the hands of the debtor, and the latter wastes, destroys or sells it, the receiptor is liable. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy by John Lowell (1899)
"If the attached property is restored to the debtor upon his procuring a receiptor who undertakes that the property shall be forthcoming to answer the ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Contracts Connected with the Custody and by Isaac Edwards (1878)
"It was found that a duty enforced by law must have its correlative right ; that if the law holds the receiptor responsible for the property, it must accord ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Inn-keepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1880)
"The ground of denial was, that the mere naked possession of the receiptor was too slight to support his action of trover, since property in chattels must be ..."

5. The Law of Torts Or Private Wrongs by Francis Hilliard (1861)
"receiptor and keeper. 31. Property exempt from execution. 10. Right to indemnity. 32. Successive acts of a levy may be 12. Attachment of the property of a ..."

6. The Law of Torts Or Private Wrongs by Francis Hilliard (1866)
"3. Officer's title to, and right of action for, property attached. Title of a receiptor or keeper. I. Attachment — nature and purpose of an attachment — an ..."

7. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"Against a Mere receiptor for Refusal to Return. I. That on or about the day of , 18 .at , the defendant received from the plaintiff certain goods, ..."

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