Receiver
a person specially appointed by a court of justice to receive the rents and profits of land, or the produce of other property, which is in dispute in a cause in that court. The name is also given to a person appointed in suits concerning the estates of infants, or against executors, or between partners in business, or insolvents, for the purpose of winding up the concern.
RECEIVER OF STOLEN GOODS, one who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of partaking in the crime. If the theft amounts to felony the punishment is penal servitude of from 3 to 14 years, or imprisonment for two years; if a misdemeanor, penal servitude from three to seven years, or imprisonment for not above two years. In the United States the penalty is fixed by statutes in the several States.