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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

donneur

, OF.

daneor

, fr.

donner

. See

, and cf.

One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. Inverse of

recipient

(Law)

One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; – the opposite of

donee

Kent.

Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the

donors

and granters as the donees or grantees.

Spelman.

Noun.

[L., to give.]

One who gives or bestows; one who confers any thing gratuitously; a benefactor.

One who grants an estate; as, a conditional fee may revert to the donor, if the donee has no heirs of his body.