maintainor
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French mainteneor, French mainteneur.
Noun
[edit]maintainor (plural maintainors)
- (law) One who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
- 1786, James G. Butler, The Statutes at Large:
- […] as well the receptor and maintainor, as that rebel or person so recepted, or maintained, be taken, reputed and adjudged
References
[edit]- “maintainor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.