habilitator

plural habilitators

1. USobsoleteOne who supplies money to work a mine.

   1 more example

   If the mine itself and its machinery, stores, and other valuable things that form part of the undertaking, should be attached and sold in execution, the provisions of the foregoing articles shall be observed in favor of the habilitators, as to the preference of their several claims among themselves, and with regard to the other creditors.

   1892, Alejandro K. Coney, The Legal and Mercantile Handbook of Mexico, page 177