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What is a donatory?

What is a donatory? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law, Scotland) A donee of the crown; one to whom, upon certain conditions, escheated property is made over.
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On this island Francesco Pereira Coutinho, the first donatory, was killed by the savages.
In Scotland they were held to belong to the crown or its donatory, usually the sheriff of a county.
The donatory of the territory which included the bay of Bahia, started a town, but it was destroyed by Indians.

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