Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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†PREPOSITOR, n. Sc. Law: a person who employs an agent, factor, or the like, for the management of an enterprise, the principal in a business negotiation or undertaking (Sc. 1909 N.E.D.).Sc. 1754 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, in so far as relates to the subject of the praepositura: And tho' the institors be pupils, and so cannot bind themselves, the prepositor, who, knowing their state, gave them a power to contract for him, stands obliged by their deeds.Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 502:
Prepositors are liable for the acts of the institor.
