Aliener

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. One who transfers ownership of property or rights to another party ; a person who conveys or sells assets legally ; an individual involved in the act of relinquishing or assigning possessions
2. An entity responsible for passing title or interest in assets to someone else ; a person engaged in the formal process of transferring something owned ; one who disposes of property rights through legal means
3. A party that legally conveys or hands over ownership ; an individual executing the transfer of property or rights to another ; a person who participates in alienation by surrendering possessions or claims

Etymology: "Aliener" is an alternative spelling of "alienor," the legal term for a person who transfers ownership of property to someone else. The word belongs to the family of English legal vocabulary built on "alien" in its older sense of transferring or making something belong to another, the same root that gives "alienate" and "alienation." The spelling variant "aliener" simply shows the same word written with the agent ending "-er" rather than the "-or" that English legal Latin-derived terms often took.