Law. [f. as prec. + -OR 2 d.] One who surrenders an estate, etc., to another: correlative to surrenderee.
a. 1683. Scroggs, Courts-leet (1714), 148. When a Surrender is made to the Use of a Will, the Fee-Simple remains in the Surrenderor.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. 368. Till admittance of cestuy que use, the lord taketh notice of the surrenderor as his tenant.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), VI. 45. A surrender to the use of a will must be presented: but by special custom such presentment may be made at the next court, after the death of the surrenderor.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. § 170. On his death … the guardianship reverts to the surrenderor.
