Founder
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who endows an Institution; one who makes a gift of revenues to a corporation.
10 Coke, 33; 1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 481.
In England, the king is said to be the founder of all civil corporations; and where there is an act of incorporation, he is called the "general founder," and he who endows is called the "perficient founder."
1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 481.