LIQUIDATOR

A person appointed to carry out the winding up of a company. -Official liquidator. In English law..A person.appointed by the judge in chancery, 111 whose court a joint-stock company is being wound up, to bring and defend suits and actions in the name of the company, and generally to do all things nece ary for winding np the affairs of the company, and distributing its a ets. 3 Steph. Comm. 24. [s. 736]