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Assessor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One appointed to assess the person or property.

2. An inferior officer of justice, who sits to assist the judge.

3. One who sits by another, as next in dignity.

Assessor [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.

2. One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.

3. One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.

Assessor Encyclopedia Britannica

ASSESSOR, among the Romans, was a term generally applied to a trained lawyer who sat beside a governor of a province or other magistrate, to instruct him in the administration of the laws. The system is still exemplified in Scotland, where it is usual in the larger towns for municipal magistrates, in the administration of their civil jurisdiction, to have the aid of professional assessors. In municipal corporations in England, officers with the same name are appointed to assist at the election of councillors and ascertain the result. By the recent English Judicature Act, provision is made for trial of matters of fact by the judge with assessors instead of by jury, when parties so desire.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, p. 728
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Assessorial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors.

Assessorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office or function of an assessor.