Depositor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
He who makes a deposit. DEPOSITUM (Lat. from deponere, to deposit). In the civil and common law. A naked bailment of goods, to be kept for the bailor without reward, and to be returned when he shall require it.
Story, Bailm. §1 4, 41; 2 Kent, Comm. 558, 559; Jones, Bailm. 36; Inst. 3. 15. 3; Bracton, fol. 100b; Dig. 16. 3; Code, 4. 34; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 56, S 7.
Otherwise termed "deposit" (q. v.); the bailor being in this case termed the "depositor," and the bailee the "depositary." Bell, Diet.