grantor

Example Sentences

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If your friend sets up a revocable trust, she can be both grantor and trustee during her lifetime, and have the freedom to change the terms.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Many dynasty trusts are set up to be “intentionally defective grantor trusts.”

From MarketWatch • Oct. 22, 2025

Spot Ethereum ETFs will directly hold Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, allowing investors to own a share of the cryptocurrency through grantor trusts.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2024

The assets in the corpus can be managed, invested and distributed by the trustee, who can only follow instructions issued by the grantor.

From Encyclopedia.com • Mar. 31, 2018

The custom of providing for gilt spurs was of a practical kind, the articles being peculiarly useful to the grantor.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel