In the
United States, the most common usage relates to real estate and personal property appraisals, while the term is often used to describe a person specially
appointed by a
judicial or quasi-judicial
authority to put a valuation on property,
e.g. on the items of an
inventory of the Tangible Property of an Estate (IRS law) of a deceased person or on land taken for public purposes by the right of
eminent domain. Appraisers of imported goods and boards of general appraisers have extensive functions in administering the customs laws of the United States. Merchant appraisers are sometimes appointed temporarily under the revenue laws to value where there is no resident appraiser without holding the office of appraiser (U.S. Rev. Stats. § 2609). ==See also==