[f. WARRANT v. + -OR. Cf. GUARANTOR.]
1. Law. One who gives warranty.
1685. Les Termes de la Ley, 419, s.v. Garranty, It behoves that every Warranty, whereby the Heir shall be barred, discend by course of the Common Law to him who is Heir to the Warrantor.
1741. T. Robinson, Gavelkind, I. vi. 123. If Land warranted comes to a younger Brother by Borough-English or Gavelkind, he is without Remedy against the Warrantor.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. xxx. 470. Each indorsor is a warrantor for the payment of the bill.
1863. A. J. Horwood, Yearbks. 30 & 31 Edw. I., Pref. 32. The liability of a warrantor when the purchaser of land has erected a building on the land warranted.
1875. K. E. Digby, Real Prop., ii. (1876), 78, note. Upon the acceptance of the warrantor the suit as to the title to the chattel proceeded between the claimant and the warrantor.
1911. Times, 16 Feb., 4/5. The right to appear of ordinary warrantors in cases in which action was taken … did not apply.
2. gen. = WARRANTER 1. rare.
1850. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), VI. ix. 371. As the warrantor of what an Englishman means when he says he insists on ‘fair play.’
