RECEIVER

A receiver 1s an indifferent person between the parties appointed by the court to collect and receive the rents, i ues, and profits of land, or the produce ot personal estate, or other things which it does not seem reasonable to the court that either party should do; or where a party is incompetent to do so, as in. the case of an infant. The remedy of the appointment of a receiver is one of the very oldest in the court of chancery, and 1s founded on the inadequacy of the remedy to be obtained In the court of ordinary jurisdiction. Bisp. Eq. § 576. See · Hay v. McDaniel, 26 Ind. App. 683, 60 N. E. 729; Hale v. Hardon, 95 Fed. 773, 37 a C. A. 240; Wiswall v. Kunz, 173 Ill. 110, 50 N. E. 184; State v. Gambs, 68 Mo. 297; Nevitt v. Wood burn, 190 Ill. 283, 60 N. E. 500; Kennedy v. Railroad Co. (C. C.) 3 Fed. 103. One who receives money to the use of another to render an account. •Story, Eq. Jur. f 446. In crim.inal law. One who recei.;es stolen goods from thieves, and conceals them. Cowell. This was always the prevalent sense of tlie word In the common as well as the civll law. ' -Receiver general of the duchy of Lancaster. An officer of the duchy court, who collects all the revenues, fines, forfeitures, and a e ments within the duchy.-Reaeiver general of the public revenue. In English law. An officer appointed in every county, to receive the taxes granted by parliament, and remit the money to the treasury.-Receiver of fines. An English officer w.ho receives the money from persons who compound with the crown on original writs sued out of chancery. Wharton.- Receivers and triers of petitions. The mode of receiving and trying petitions to parliament was formerly judicial rather than legislative, and the triers were committees of prelates, peers, and judges, and, latterly, of the members generally. Brown.-Receiver's certificate. A non-negotiable evidence of debt, or debenture, I ued by authority of a court of chancery, as a first lien upon the property of a debtor corporation in the hands of a receiver. Beach, Ree. § 379.-Receivers of wreck. Persons appointed by the English board of trade. The duties of a receiver of wreck are to take steps for the preservation of any ve el stranded or in distre within his district; to receive and take po e ion of all articles washed on shore from the ve el; to use force for the suppre ion of plunder and disorder; to institute an examination on oath with ri:spect to the ve el; and, if nece ary, to sell the ve el, cargo, 01 wreck. Sweet. [s. 1001]