Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, the person to whom the profits of a ship or trading-vessel belong; the owner, managing owner, or charterer.

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  • The former lies against a master who has appointed a slave to be captain of a ship, to recover a debt incurred by the slave in his character of captain, and it is called exercitoria, because the person to whom the daily profits of a ship belong is termed an exercitor.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

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