Title and transfer
Grantor
The party conveying an interest in real property
The one giving something up, and therefore the only one who has to sign the deed. A grantor must be of legal age and competent, and a deed from someone a court has already declared incompetent is void rather than merely voidable.
Easily confused with
The mortgagor is the borrower and not the lender, for exactly this reason: the borrower is the one granting the security interest.
How the exam asks about it
Grantor gives, grantee gets, and the pattern repeats across the vocabulary — lessor, mortgagor, optionor. The exam leans on the pattern holding.
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