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Creditor

A person to whom a debt is owing by another person, called the “debt-oi’.’’ Mohr v. Elevator Co:, 40 Minn. 343, 41 N. W. 1074; Woolverton v. Taylor Co., 43 111. App. 424; Insurance , Co. v. Meeker

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)