Crossword clues for grantor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
grantor \grant"or\ (gr[.a]nt"[^o]r), n. (Law) The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Anglo-French grantor, agent noun from granter (see grant). Native form granter (n.) is attested from c.1400.
Wiktionary
n. (label en legal) A person who grants something.
WordNet
n. a person who makes a grant in legal form; "conveyed from grantor to grantee"
Usage examples of "grantor".
It will also be requisite to secure by formal agreements that the guarantee shall cease, and the grants of land for railway purposes revert to the grantors, in case of the permanent abandonment of the undertaking, of which abandonment some unambiguous test should be prescribed, such as the suspension of through communication for a stated period.
I'll be a high one in Stonefort before too long, and Stonefort stands high in the Komman of Grantor.
If that had been the notion, there would have been a contract directly binding the first grantor to the assign, as soon as the land was sold, and thus there would have been two warranties arising from the same clause,--one to the first grantee, a second to the assign.