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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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‡INSTITOR, n. Sc. Law: an agent, or manager, “a term of Roman Law sometimes but now rarely used in Scots Law” (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 44).Sc. 1765 Faculty Decisions 239:
Lee was an institor or manager employed by them.Sc. 1769 Erskine Principles iii. iii. § 14:
The undertaker of any branch of trade, manufacture, or other land-negotiation, is bound by the contracts of the institors whom he sets over it.Sc. 1838 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 502:
A mercantile consignee or factor is, in this sense, an institor. . . . Institors do not, like shipmasters, bind themselves in their transactions; they bind only their constituents.