recognizee
English
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Etymology
Noun
recognizee (plural recognizees)
- (law) The person in whose favour a recognizance is made.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:[1]
- the plaintiff,C.D., &c. is called the recognizee
- Someone who is recognized
References
- ^ “recognizee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.