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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
Choice; Election, (q.v.) where the subject is considered. OR, in the termination of words, has an active signification, and usually denotes the doer of any act; as, the grantor, he who makes a grant; the vendor, he who makes a sale; the feoffor, he who makes a feoffment. Litt. s. 57; 1 Bl. Com. 140, n. o ‘ ORATOR, practice, is a good man, skilful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private. Dupin, Profession d’Avocat, tom.
1, p. 19.
In chancery, the party who files a bill or answer calls himself in those pleadings your ora-