maintainor

Old French mainteneor, French mainteneur.

maintainor (plural maintainors)

1. (law) One who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
   • 1786, James G. Butler, The Statutes at Large:

     […] as well the receptor and maintainor, as that rebel or person so recepted, or maintained, be taken, reputed and adjudged

• “maintainor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• marination, nantaimori