Releasor
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
He who makes a release. RELEGATIO (Lat.) A kind of banishment known to the civil law, which did not take away the rights of citizenship, which deportatio did. Some say that relegatio was temporary, deportatio perpetual; that relegatio did not take away the property of the exile, and that deportatio did; but these distinctions do not seem always to exist. There was one sort of relegatio for slaves, viz., in a,gros; another for freedom, viz., in provincias. Relegatio only exiled from certain limits; deportatio confined to a particular place (locus poenae). Calv. Lex. RELEGATION (from Lat. relegatio, q. v.)
In old English law. Banishment for a time only. Co. Litt. 133. RELEVAMEN (Law Lat. from relevare, to lift up).
In old English law. Relief; one of the incidents of the feudal tenure. Lib. Rames, § 310; Spelman. In Domesday Book it is called relevamentum; in the laws of Edward the Confessor, relevatio; in Magna Charta, and generally in old English and Scotch law relevium. Domesday Book, tit. "Berocscire, Walingford;" LL. Edw. Conf. c. 35.
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 release.