arch. [f. APPRIZE v.2 + -ER1.] One who appraises; Sc. Law, A creditor for whose behoof an appraisal is made.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., vii. 150. Apprysers of flesh … to appryse the flesh … alswell for the profite of the fleshers, as of the people.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 257. The heritable rights belonging to the debtor were sold for payment of the debt due to the appriser.
1815. Scott, Guy M., i. The apprizer (as the holder of a mortgage was then called) entered upon possession.
