promissorn.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ix. 247 When the Signifyer coms to the very place & minute of the Promissor.

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. 499 Neither doeth he any where consider generall constitutions, or the originall weakeness of the Signifiers, and Promissors.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. iv. 76 If ♄ by his revolution, or transitus, shall offend any of those radicall promissors in the geniture.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Promitters or Promissors, a Term in the Genethliack part of Astrology, so called because they promise in the Radix something to be accomplished, when the Time of direction is fulfilled.

1704 W. Leybourn Math. Inst. III. iv. 265 The Circle of Position passing through this Degree..will be the Horizon of the Promissor.

1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 12 We need not doubt this promissor was some Cathedralist within orders, he does so shuffle Priests and Princes together.

1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 211 The ex-promissor, who is to undertake the debt.

1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West Oct.–Nov. 260 Bills in circulation as money..are suffered to circulate at a discount, and are redeemed by the promissor or his agent.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. Comm. 362 A unilateral convention is one where there is a single promissor and a single acceptor.

1924 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 34 247 The evils that befall the promissor when he is compelled to perform or pay damages will effect [sic] his creditors.

1956 Ethics 67 9/2 Decision starts from the prima facie requirements of a given relationship, like that of promissor to promissee.

2004 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 May 25 There can be no claim based on a promise of future actions unless the promissor does not intend to fulfill the promise, in which case there is a misrepresentation of the promissor's present intention.