a. Now rare. [ad. mod.L. stipulātōrius, f. stipulārī: see STIPULATE v. and -ORY.]
1. Of the nature of or characterized by stipulation, in various senses.
1658. J. R., Christian Subject, vii. 101. A limited power, bounded in by Oaths, Laws, Couenants, and solemn Stipulatory acts, contracted betwixt the Magistrate and the Subjects.
a. 1662. Sanderson, Cases Consc. (1678), 14. Whereunto agree those forms so frequent in holy Scripture, in Oaths both assertory, and stipulatory.
1695. Whether Parliament be not in Law dissolved, etc. 17. There is no Original Contract, nor Stipulatory Agreement.
1702. H. Dodwell, Apol., § 23, in S. Parker, Cicero’s De Finibus. This is implied in the Baptismal Stipulation, inasmuch as the Signs there used are stipulatory, and stipulatory on our part, as well as God’s.
1704. in H. M. B. Reid, Cameronian Apostle (1896), 236. That all compacts and covenants … are mutual and stipulatory, binding each party conditionally to the performance of what they have engaged.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, II. 38. You must … take from him a stipulatory engagement for the same debt.
2. Constituted by stipulation or agreement.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., IV. 492. He bequeathed … the county of Pyrmont to his cousins the Counts Christian and Wolrad of Waldeck, his stipulatory successors and cousins.
