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institor|ˈɪnstɪtɔː(r)|
[a. L. institor, agent-n. from insistĕre to step upon, to follow, pursue: see insist.]
A factor or agent; a broker; a retailer, huckster, vendor. (Chiefly in Rom. and Sc. Law.)
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 396* Neither the Incolists that make these Pastils, nor the Institors that buy them, mix Goat's blood therewith. 1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. i. xii. §19 Our custom hath not so fully owned the Roman Law as to institors, as it has as to exercitors. 1754Erskine Princ. Law Scot. iii. iii. §14 Tho' the institors be pupils, and so cannot bind themselves, the prepositor..stands obliged by their deeds. 1858G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scot. i. vi. §4 (ed. 6) 177 An Institor or the person who has the management of a shop, has a presumed authority to bind his principal. [1880Muirhead Gaius Dig. 509 A paterfamilias or owner, who had placed his filiusfamilias or slave as institor in charge of a shop or other business.] |