GIRANTEM

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

  GIRANTEM, mer. law. An Italian word,, which signifies the drawer. It is 
  derived from, girare, to draw, in the same manner as the English verb to 
  murder, is transformed into murdrare in our old indictments. Hall, Mar. 
  Loans, 183, n.