stakeholder
    n 1: someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more
         persons betting against one another; must deliver the
         stakes to the winner

Stakeholder \Stake"hold`er\ (-h[=o]ld`[~e]r), n.
   The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited
   when a wager is laid.
   [1913 Webster]

STAKEHOLDER, contracts. A third person, chosen by two or more persons, to 
keep in deposit property, the right or possession of which is contested 
between them and to be delivered to the one who shall establish his right to 
it. Thus each of them is considered as depositing the whole thing. This 
distinguishes this contract from that which takes place when two or more 
tenants in common deposit a thing with a bailee. Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 1, t. 
7, s. 4; 1 Vern. R. 44, n. 1. 
     2. A person having in his hands money or other property claimed by 
several others, is considered in equity as a stakeholder. 1 Vern. R. 144. 
     3. The duties of a stakeholder are to deliver the thing holden by him 
to the person entitled to it on demand. It is frequently questionable who is 
entitled to it. In case of an unlawful wager, although be may be justified 
for delivering the thing to the winner, by the express or implied consent of 
the loser; 8, John. 147; yet if before the event has happened he has been 
required by either party to give up the thing deposited with him by such 
party, he is bound so to deliver it; 3 Taunt. 377; 4 Taunt. 492; or if, 
after the event has happened, the losing party give notice to the 
stakeholder not to pay the winner, a payment made to him afterwards will be 
made in his own wrong, and the party who deposited the money or thing may 
recover it from the stakeholder. 16 S. & R. 147; 7 T. R. 536; 8 T. R. 575; 4 
Taunt. 474; 2 Marsh. 542. See 3 Penna. R. 468; 4 John. 426; 5 Wend. 250; 2 
P. A. Browne, 182; 1 Bailey, 486, 503. See Wagers.