Scrivener
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
'' A writer for another; a draughtsman; a scribe: as, the scrivener of a will, deed, or other document. Originally, a person with whom people deposited money to be laid out when he found opportunity; he, ' meanwhile, having the use of the money. The banker has supplanted him as the depbsitary of money, and the attorney as the draughtsman of securities... To be a scrivener, a man now must carry on the business of being trusted with other people's moneys to lay out for them as occasion offers.^