Definition of Trustor

1. Noun. (law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee.

Exact synonyms: Settlor
Generic synonyms: Bestower, Conferrer, Donor, Giver, Presenter
Category relationships: Law, Law

Definition of Trustor

1. Noun. (legal) A person who creates a trust. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trustor

1. one that trustees his property [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trustor

trustfully
trustfulness
trustfulnesses
trustier
trusties
trustiest
trustily
trustiness
trustinesses
trusting
trustingly
trustingness
trustingnesses
trustless
trustlessness
trustor (current term)
trustors
trusts
trustworthily
trustworthiness
trustworthy
trusty
truth
truth be told
truth disclosure
truth drug
truth function
truth functions
truth quark
truth quarks

Literary usage of Trustor

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

1. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes : Political, Civil by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, Charles Lindley (1871)
"852, a vol- voluntary untary trust is created, as to the trustor and beneficiary, ... An intention on the part of the trustor to cre.te a trust; and, 2. ..."

2. Trusts for Business Purposes by William Carden Dunn (1922)
"trustor, CREATOR OR SETTLOR. 39—Who May Be. In general, every person ... The law is well settled that a trustor may convey his property in trust for his own ..."

3. California Unreported Cases: Being Those Decisions Determined in the Supreme by California Supreme Court, Peter V. Ross, California District Courts of Appeal (1913)
"A court of equity will not allow a trust to fail solely for want of a trustee; that is, if the purposes of a trust and the wishes of a trustor can be ..."

4. The Codes and Statutes of California: As Amended and in Force at the Close by California, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy (1901)
"Creation of trust as to trustor.—To (he validity of a trust affecting realty, a writing is necessary, except as to such trusts as uncreated by operation of ..."

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