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grantor Law.|grɑːnˈtɔː(r), -æ-|
[a. AF. grantor, agent-n. of granter to grant: see -or. Cf. granter.]
One who makes a grant or conveyance in legal form.
a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law xiv. (1636) 56 A foundation of an interest in the grantor. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. i. §1. 1 Unto a Grant, a Grantor, Grantee, and a thing granted are requisite. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 478 Their privilege even of purchasing from any living grantor is greatly abridged. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 276 A conveyance is not valid against any other person but the grantor, unless it be thus acknowledged and recorded. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 196 Saying masses for the benefit of the grantor's family. 1883American VI. 270 In England, if the grantor cannot sign, he may make his mark.
b. In quasi-legal language.
a1740Waterland Regeneration Wks. (1823) VI. 348 Regeneration on the part of the Grantor, God Almighty, means admission or adoption into sonship..: and on the part of the grantee, viz. man, it means his birth, or entrance into that state of sonship. 178.Knox Liberal Educ. xlviii. Wks. 1824 IV. 186 For the sake of the grantors, the practice [of ‘granting testimonia of morals and proficiency’] ought to be put an end to, unless [etc.]. |