taxator

plural taxators

1. Synonym of taxer.

   The taxators appointed by the clerk of the Parliaments have power to administer oaths, and to require the production of proper vouchers for all monies charged as having been paid by a parliamentary agent.

   1844, Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, London: Charles Knight & Co. […], page 460

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   The halls were in general held only on lease; but by a privilege common to most Universities, houses once occupied by clerks or students could not again be resumed by the proprietor, or taken from the gown, if the rent were punctually discharged, the rate of which was quinquennially fixed by the academical taxators.

   1831 June, “Art[icle] VI.—1. Addenda ad Corpus Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. 4to. Oxonii: 1825. 2. The Oxford University Calendar, for 1829. 8vo. Oxford: 1829.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume LIII, number CVI, Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Company, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London; and Adam Black, Edinburgh, page 408

   Farm assaying, i.e. the estimation of the value of farms and of their component parts is the task of specialized assayors or taxators and therefore we shall limit ourselves in this pamphlet to a short statement of their work.

   1945, E. Taschdjian, Agricultural Economy and Farm Management with Reference to China, Catholic University of Peking and Chinese Catholic Agricultural Research Assocation, page 57

   Synonyms: taxer