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Definition of Approver
1. Noun. An authority with power to approve.
Definition of Approver
1. n. One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.
2. n. A bailiff or steward; an agent.
Definition of Approver
1. Noun. One who approves or gives approval. ¹
2. Noun. (dated) (legal) In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; who commits approvement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Approver
1. one that approves [n -S] - See also: approves
Lexicographical Neighbors of Approver
Literary usage of Approver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Abridgment of the Law by Matthew Bacon (1832)
"PC It is at the election of the appellee, either to put himself on 297- his
country, or wage battle with the approver; and if several HPC 201. ..."
2. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"would falsify the appeal of the first approver, in supposing that cause an infinite
delay; for the appellee of such an approver might as well become an ..."
3. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High by Edward Coke (1797)
"A man became an approver and appealed five, and every of them joyned battell ...
as the approver did and ought to fight in that cafe with all the appellees. ..."
4. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"approver. By the ancient law of this country, if a man, indicted for treason or
felony, confessed the indictment, the court might admit him to become an ..."
5. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"And besides, as it is in the discretion of the court, whether they will suffer
one to be an approver, this method of late hath been seldom practised : And ..."
6. Collections for a History of Staffordshire by William Salt Archaeological Society, Staffordshire Record Society (1891)
"And a jury being sworn, stated that the sa;d Robert, son of William, had turned
approver of his own will and spontaneously, and not by reason of the harsh ..."
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