confirmor

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English

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Noun

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confirmor (plural confirmors)

  1. (law) One who performs the confirmation of an estate; the grantor of a deed of confirmation.
    • 1826, S. F. T. Wilde, editor, A Supplement to Mr. Barton’s Precedents in Conveyancing [], volume 2, page 325, note 1:
      The confirmor must have such an estate and property in the thing of which the confirmation is made, as may enable him to confirm the estate to the confirmee; Dyer 109.
  2. (Hong Kong) A purchaser of real estate who resells the property before the transaction is completed.
    • 2004 August 30, “Buy-and-sell home market loses steam as deals fall off”, in South China Morning Post[1]:
      Confirmors buy and sell a property before a transaction is completed and they are generally thought to be speculators.
    • 2008, Chris Dillon, Landed: The Expatriate’s Guide to Buying and Renovating Property in Hong Kong, →ISBN, page 27:
      During the period between the signing of the provisional S&P agreement and the completion of the sale, “A” (the confirmor) sells the property to sub-purchaser “C” for a higher price.
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Latin

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Verb

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cōnfirmor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of cōnfirmō