debtee
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /dɛˈtiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]debtee (plural debtees)
- (law) One who is owed a debt; a creditor.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- If a person indebted to another makes his creditor or debtee his executor , or if such a creditor obtains letters of administration to his debtor ; in these cases the law gives him a remedy for his debt by allowing him to retain so much as will pay himself
- 2022, Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer:
- The debtee also relies on the debtor to be financially successful themselves to pay the instalments of the debt as necessary.
References
[edit]- “debtee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.