grantor
Deed-signing party
A grantor is a person or entity that transfers property, rights, or assets to another.
The term appears most often in legal and financial contexts: The grantor signed the deed transferring the property to her daughter.
In trust law, the grantor creates and funds a trust, also called a settlor or trustor.
The recipient is the grantee.
Trust's founding party
- trustorTrust agreement maker
- transferorOne conveying rights
- assignorOne transferring legal rights
- licensorOne granting usage rights
testator · lessor · bailor · mortgagor · donor · franchisor · consignor · endower
Transfer of property rights
- titleFormal honorific or name
- transferMove between locations
- warrantyFormal repair promise
- propertySomething owned or inherent
deed · ownership · execution · signature · notarization · escrow · recording · instrument
One who gives aid
- donorOne who contributes freely
- philanthropistDonor to charitable causes
- patronRegular supporter or customer
- contributorOne who provides something
sponsor · underwriter · foundation · endowment · charity · donation · gift · bequest
settlor
Trust's founding party
- trustorTrust agreement maker
- transferorOne conveying rights
- assignorOne transferring legal rights
licensor · testator · lessor · bailor · mortgagor · donor · franchisor · consignor · endower · conveyancer
conveyance
Transfer of property rights
property · deed · ownership · execution · signature · notarization · escrow · recording · instrument · parcel
benefactor
One who gives aid
- donorOne who contributes freely
- philanthropistDonor to charitable causes
- patronRegular supporter or customer
contributor · sponsor · underwriter · foundation · endowment · charity · donation · gift · bequest · funding
- donorsdonor, blood donor, organ donor, living donor, bone marrow donor
- contract partiesparty, counterparty, signatory, buyer, seller
- estate planningexecutor, trust, beneficiary, will, probate
- legal partiesassignee, assignor, creditor, debtor, beneficiary
- legal signerscosigner, witness, endorser, notary, signatory
- property transfertransfer of ownership, title, property transfer, lease, conveyance
grantorgrantee
Receiver of awarded funds
recipient · transferee · beneficiary · assignee · donee
- taken for grantedAssumed present, never thanked
- funding grantsMoney awarded for purposes
- government grantPublic money awarded freely
- Cary Grant
- permission grantedOfficial approval to proceed
- research grantFunds awarded for investigation
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