Depositor
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
He who makes a deposit. DEP0SITUM. A species of bailment. See Deposit.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One who makes a deposit.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
contracts, is he’ who makes a deposit.. He is generally entitled to receive the deposit from the depositary, but to this rule there are exceptions; as when ‘the depositor at the time of making the deposit had no title to the property deposited, and the owner claims it from the depositary, the depositor cannot recover it; and for this reason that he can never be in a better situation than the owner. 1 Barn. & Ald. 450; 5 Taunt. 759. As to the place where the depositor is entitled to receive his deposit, see Story on Bailm. § 117—120.