stakeholder

stakeholder
Generally, a stakeholder is a third party chosen by two or more persons to keep on deposit property or money the right or possession of which is contested between them, and to be delivered to one who shall establish his right to it; and it is one who is entitled to interplead rival or contesting claimants to property or funds in his hands. Cochran v. Bank of Hancock County, 118 Ga.App. 100, 162 S.E.2d 765, 770.
A person who is or may be exposed to multiple liability as the result of adverse claims. A stakeholder may commence an action of interpleader against two or more claimants. New York C.P.L.R. No. 1006.
See also interpleader
A person with whom money is deposited pending the decision of a bet or wager (q.v.). His function is to receive the sums wagered and hold them against the determining event, whether that event be a horse race or otherwise, and then pay them over to the winner

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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