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Webster 1913 Edition
Mortgagor
{
, Mort′gage-or
,Mort′ga-gor
}Noun.
(Law)
One who gives a mortgage.
☞ The letter e is required analogically after the second g in order to soften it; but the spelling mortgagor is in fact the prevailing form. When the word is contradistinguished from mortgagee it is accented on the last syllable
(-jôr′)
.