Also technically 7 -or. [f. TRUST v. + -ER1.] One who trusts, confides, or relies; one who believes or credits; one who gives credit, a creditor.
1537. Orig. & Sprynge Sectes, 42. Onely they yt be earnest trusters & beleuers in God are Christen men.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 172. Nor shall you doe mine eare that violence, To make it truster of your owne report Against your selfe. Ibid. (1607), Timon, IV. i. 10. Bankrupts … out with your Kniues, And cut your Trusters throates.
1649. W. Ball, Power of Kings, 5. It is against Reason … that such Trustees or Stewards should derive no Power from the People their Trustors.
1800. A. Swanston, Serm. & Lect., I. 181. The trusters have been put to the severest trials.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xl. 3. Through grace [they] shall receive faith and become trusters in Jehovah.
b. Sc. Law. spec. One who puts property in trust; correlative to TRUSTEE 2.
1675. in W. M. Morison, Dict. Decis. (1807), 16173. Ibid. (1741), 16201. Where a trust does not arise from any deed or disposition of the truster, but from the voluntary interposition of the trustee [etc.].
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 1010. Where the truster had conveyed his whole estate, heritable and moveable, to trustees,… it was held [etc.].
1885. Law Rep. 10 App. Cas. 452. The truster had a very large amount of personalty in Scotland.
