grantor
gran ter
- n a person who makes a grant in legal form
conveyed from grantor to grantee
- I doubt that a pardon can be overturned, either by the grantor, or by previous grantors.
- The state in which it is located gets it through "escheat," a feudal doctrine by which the land of a man who died without heirs reverted to the original grantor, or lord of the .