Promisor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Promisor \Prom"is*or\, n. (Law)
     One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. --Burrill.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  promisor
       n : a person who makes a promise [syn: {promiser}]

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

  PROMISOR. One who makes a promise. 
       2. The promisor is bound to fulfill his promise, unless when it is 
  contrary to law, as a promise to steal or to commit an assault and battery; 
  when the fulfillment is prevented by the act of God, as where one has agreed 
  to teach another drawing and he loses his sight, so that he cannot teach it; 
  when the promisee prevents the promisor from doing what he agreed to do; 
  when the promisor has been discharged from his promise by the promisee, when 
  the promise, has been made without a sufficient consideration; and, perhaps, 
  in some other cases, the duties of the promisor are at an end.