GIFTOMAN

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GIFTOMAN, Swedish law. He who has a right to dispose of a woman in marriage. 
       2. This right is vested in the father, if living; if dead, in the 
  mother. They may nominate a person in their place; but for want of such 
  nomination, the brothers german; and for want of them, the consanguine 
  brothers; and in default of the latter, uterine brothers have the right, but 
  they are bound to consult the paternal or maternal grandfather. Swed- Code, 


  tit. of Marriage.