What is "trustor"

n. (context legal English) A person who creates a trust.

Trustor may refer to:

• In law a trustor is a person who settles property on express trust for the benefit of beneficiaries, see settlor
• In social sciences and in information technology, a trustor (agent) is an entity that trusts another entity
• Trustor affair

In social sciences and in information technology, trustor (alt. truster in e.g.) is an entity that trusts the other entity (the trustee). Trustor may be a social agent (such as a person or an institution) or a technical agent (such as a computer or a software application), acting on behalf of a social agent.