consignataryn.
/kənˈsɪɡnətəri/ ? Obsolete.
One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted; a consignee:† a. In mercantile usage. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > one to whom a thing is entrusted
repository1592
depositor1604
depositary1608
depository1656
depositee1676
reposure1682
consignatarya1685
custodee1739
a person of confidence1777
repositary1866
a1685 Sir L. Jenkins in Wynne Life II. 701 Several of the consignataries have made oath, that the goods consigned unto them in these ships do belong to free persons.
b. In Scots Law: cf. consign v. 9.
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1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. i. 274 It is the office of a consignatary, to keep the money in safe custody, till it be called for.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. viii. 198 An instrument of consignation..being but the assertion of a notary, cannot fix the receipt of consigned money upon the consignatary, without an acknowledgment subscribed by himself.
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