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warrantor|ˈwɒrəntə(r)|
[f. warrant v. + -or. Cf. guarantor.]
1. Law. One who gives warranty.
1685Les Termes de la Ley 419 s.v. Garranty, It behoves that every Warranty, whereby the Heir shall be barred, discend by course of the Common Law to him who is Heir to the Warrantor. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind i. vi. 123 If Land warranted comes to a younger Brother by Borough-English or Gavelkind, he is without Remedy against the Warrantor. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxx. 470 Each indorsor is a warrantor for the payment of the bill. 1863A. J. Horwood Yearbks. 30 & 31 Edw. I Pref. 32 The liability of a warrantor when the purchaser of land has erected a building on the land warranted. 1875K. E. Digby Real Prop. ii. (1876) 78 note, Upon the acceptance of the warrantor the suit as to the title to the chattel proceeded between the claimant and the warrantor. 1911Times 16 Feb. 4/5 The right to appear of ordinary warrantors in cases in which action was taken..did not apply.
2. gen. = warranter 1. rare.
1850Kinglake Crimea (1877) VI. ix. 371 As the warrantor of what an Englishman means when he says he insists on ‘fair play’. |