confirmors

Noun

confirmor (plural confirmors)

1. One who performs the confirmation of an estate; the grantor of a deed of confirmation.
   • 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 109.1826, S. F. T. Wilde, editor, A Supplement to Mr. Barton’s Precedents in Conveyancing […], volume 2, page 325, note 1
2. (Hong-Kong) A purchaser of real estate who resells the property before the transaction is completed.
   • Confirmors buy and sell a property before a transaction is completed and they are generally thought to be speculators.2004 August 30, “Buy-and-sell home market loses steam as deals fall off”, in South China Morning Post