surrenderor Law.
(səˈrɛndərɔː(r))
[f. as prec. + -or 2 d.]
One who surrenders an estate, etc. to another: correlative to surrenderee.
| a 1683 Scroggs Courts-leet (1714) 148 When a Surrender is made to the Use of a Will, the Fee-Simple remains in the Surrenderor. 1766 Blackstone Comm. ii. 368 Till admittance of cestuy que use, the lord taketh notice of the surrenderor as his tenant. 1818 Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 45 A surrender to the use of a will must be presented: but by special custom such presentment may be made at the next court, after the death of the surrenderor. 1875 Poste Gaius i. §170 On his death..the guardianship reverts to the surrenderor. |