institorn.
/ˈɪnstɪtɔː/ A factor or agent; a broker; a retailer, huckster, vendor. (Chiefly in Roman Law and Scots Law.)
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun]
broker1377
factor1432
entermeter1440
broggerc1460
chapman1570
institor1657
mackeler1682
agent1707
commission man1733
agenting1751
supercargo1782
commission agent1798
commission merchant1798
curbstone broker1848
managing agent1969
society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who acts for another
procuratorc1300
proctor1301
attorney1347
provisora1393
assignee1419
procuracya1425
solicitorc1425
factor1445
soliciter1464
doer1465
umbothman1482
agent1523
assign1526
procurera1533
practitioner1560
proxy1585
pragmatic1593
procureur1604
pragmatitioner1607
foreign agent1646
institor1657
agent general1659
proxy-man1696
interestera1701
maat1824
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ccc2v* Neither the Incolists that make these Pastils, nor the Institors that buy them, mix Goats blood therewith.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xii. §19 Our custom hath not so fully owned the Roman Law as to institors, as it has as to exercitors.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. iii. §14 Tho' the institors be pupils, and so cannot bind themselves, the prepositor..stands obliged by their deeds.
1858 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 6) i. vi. §4 177 An Institor or the person who has the management of a shop, has a presumed authority to bind his principal.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 509 A paterfamilias or owner, who had placed his filiusfamilias or slave as institor in charge of a shop or other business.]
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