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receipter

receipter is the alternative form of receiptor.

Meaning of receiptor

Noun

receiptor (plural receiptors)

  1. One who receipts for property taken by the sheriff; one to whom property is delivered for storage or safekeeping, subject to a bond to produce it when litigation concludes.
    • The receiptor of property received from the sheriff assumes the relationship of bailee toward the officer and the possession of the receiptor is that of the sheriff. Where the receiptor takes possession of the property, this does not have any effect on the attachment lien whatsoever, and the goods...1941, Walter Houston Anderson, Clyde Bowen, Gus Carr Anderson, A Treatise on the Law of Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables: With Forms

Forms of receipter

pluralreceipters

Origin of receipter

From receipt + -er.

Questions about receipter

What is receipter the alternative form of?
Receipter is the alternative form of receiptor.

Words near receipter in the dictionary

  1. recedings
  2. receed
  3. receipt
  4. receiptable
  5. receipted
  6. receipter
  7. receipters
  8. receiptholder
  9. receiptholders
  10. receipting
  11. receiptless

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