#depositor

• Earnest-payer — A person who offers or pays earnest money, a down payment, or a cash guarantee at the conclusion of a commercial transaction or verbal agreement. In old Romanian commercial law, this term structurally defined the contracting party who secured priority rights over a good or service by paying a pledge, bearing the risk of losing it in case of withdrawal.
• Pledger — A person who offers earnest money or a financial down payment to reserve, pledge, and ensure the subsequent purchase of a good or service. As an adjective, it describes a behavior or a legal act that serves to guarantee a transaction through the advance payment of a sum of money, structurally defining the quality of the contracting partner who initiates the material securing of a sales promise.