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One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

nd, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

ty of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

t or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80º; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.

civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge. Attached column (…

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

A tariff or duty on goods, etc. [Obs.]

Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.

To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.…

That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.