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granter|ˈgrɑːntə(r), -æ-| Also 4 grant-, grauntar, 5–6 grawnt-, graunter. See also grantor. [f. grant v. + -er1.] One who grants.
c1400Apol. Loll. 8 In þis caas are comynli grauntars of pardoun. 1483Cath. Angl. 164/1 A Grawnter, largitor vel -trix. a1500Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) vii. 591 Hayle, graunter of happe! 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 22 He wyll distreyne for the rent or serve a writ of annuyte agaynst the graunter. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 263 So that both sides being desirous, and neither granters, they brake of conference. 1616B. Parsons Magistr. Charter 4 To begin first with the granter, with whom every well-drawne charter first beginneth. 1774T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 188 When that life is determined by the dissolution of the body politic, the granter takes it back by reversion. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 121 The granters of the venison. 1883Ld. Craighill in Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 312/2 The power of the granter to deal with her estate under the radical right is plain. |