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Donator

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from donare, q. v. L. Fr. donour.] In civil and old English law. A donor or giver; the party who makes a donatio, or gift. Bract. fol.

11, et seq.

Donatorius, (properly Donatarius); a donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Id. fol.

13, et seq.

Donator nunquam desinit possidere, antequam donatarius incipiat possidere. The giver never ceases to possess until the donee begins to possess. Bract. fol.

41 b.