recognizee

English

Alternative forms

• recognisee

Etymology

From recognize +‎ -ee.

Noun

recognizee (plural recognizees)

1. (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:

     the plaintiff,C.D., &c. is called the recognizee

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recognizee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)