confirmor
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Noun[edit]
confirmor (plural confirmors)
- (law) One who performs the confirmation of an estate; the grantor of a deed of confirmation.
- 1826, S. F. T. Wilde, editor, A Supplement to Mr. Barton’s Precedents in Conveyancing […], volume 2, page 325, note 1:
- The confirmor must have such an estate and property in the thing of which the confirmation is made, as may enable him to confirm the estate to the confirmee; Dyer 109.
- (Hong Kong) A purchaser of real estate who resells the property before the transaction is completed.
- 2004 August 30, “Buy-and-sell home market loses steam as deals fall off”, in South China Morning Post[1]:
- Confirmors buy and sell a property before a transaction is completed and they are generally thought to be speculators.
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cōnfirmor