Stakeholder
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
contracts, is a third person, chosen by two or more persons, to keep in deposit property, the right or possession of which is contested between them, and to be delivered to the one who shall establish his right to it. Thus each of them is considered as depositing the whole thing. This distinguishes this contract from that which takes place when two or more tenants in common deposit a thing with a bailee. Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 1, t.7, 8.4; 1 Vern. R. 144, n. (1.) A person having in his hands money or other property claimed by several others, 1s considered in equity as a stakeholder.
1 Vern. R. 144.