Donor
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[from L. Fr. donour; Lat. donator."] In old English law. He by whom lands were given to another; the party making a donatio, (q. v.) See Donator. In later law. He who gives lands or tenements to another in tail. Litt. sect.
67.
Termes de la ley
In modern and American law. The party conferring a power.
4 Kent's Com. 316.
Called in New- York the grantor, 1 Bev. St. [738J, 730, § 136.