Definition of Obligant

1. a person bound by themself to a duty or payment [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obligant

oblational
oblationer
oblationers
oblations
oblative
oblatory
oblatration
oblatrations
oblatum
oblectation
oblectations
obley
obleys
oblig'd
obligable
obligant (current term)
obligants
obligate
obligate aerobe
obligate anaerobe
obligate biped
obligate bipeds
obligate carnivore
obligate carnivores
obligate carrier
obligate parasite
obligate quadruped
obligate quadrupeds
obligated
obligated(p)

Literary usage of Obligant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes by Robert Thomson, John Dove Wilson (1865)
"The interests of the obligant are protected, in case he should fear that the creditor would not sufficiently attend to them, by putting it in his power to ..."

2. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1848)
"41, which requires a creditor who holds an obligant bound with, but liable in relief to, the bankrupt, to put a specified value on the obligation of such ..."

3. Conveyancing According to the Law of Scotland: Being the Lectures of the by Allan Menzies, James Mitford Morison, John Hunter (1857)
"obligant IN BOND OF PRESENTATION HAS NO RELIEF AGAINST CAUTIONER FOR THE DEBT. ! tor, that he was in attendance. The Court held, that the obligation had ..."

4. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"But an obligant who upon payment gets a conveyance of" the debt from the creditor, is thereby, in his right, entitled to sue any one of the ..."

5. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"A personal obligation to pay ground-annual does not transmit to the purchaser so as to liberate the original obligant ; 17th March 1863, Millar (House of ..."

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