Donor
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
fn old English law. He by whom lands were given to another; the party making a donatio. In later law. Ue who gives lands or tenements to anotherin tail. Litt. § 57; Termes de la Ley. In modern and American law. The party conferring a power.
4 Kent, Comm. 316.