affeeror
(əˈfɪəə(r))
Also 5 affurer, 6–7 afferour, 7 affearer.
[a. OFr. affeureur, aforeur (Anglo-Fr. *affereur, -our):—late L. afforātōr-em, n. of agent f. afforā-re: see affeer.]
He that affeers.
| 1467 Ordin. Worc. in E.E. Gilds 395 Affurers of good name. 1523 Fitzherbert Surveying 21 The othe of afferoure: I shall truely affere this court, and highe no man for no hate, ne lowe no man for no loue, but to sette euery man truely after the quantite of his trespace. 1615 J. Manwood Lawes of Forest xxv. §1. 252/2 They shal be amerced and their amercement shall be affeared by affearers there. 1641 Termes de la Ley 13 Affeerors are such as be appointed in Court leets, &c. to mulct such as have committed any fault which is arbitrably punishable, & for which no expresse penalty is prescribed by Statute. 1768 Blackstone Comm. IV. 373 This method, of liquidating the amercement to a precise sum, is usually done in the court-leet and court-baron by affeerors, or jurors sworn to affeere, that is, tax and moderate, the general amercement according to the particular circumstances of the offence and the offender. |