Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One to whom or to which ownership of property is transferred.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One to whom the title to property is transferred: as, “if the alienee enters and keeps possession,” Blackstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person to whom a property is
alienated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone to whom the title of property is transferred
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Examples
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When another person's slave is instituted heir, if he continues in the same condition he must have the order of his master to accept; if alienated by him in the testator's lifetime, or after the testator's death but before acceptance, he must have the order of the alienee to accept; finally, if manumitted in the testator's lifetime, or after the testator's death but before acceptance, he may accept or not at his own discretion.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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The alienee of a devisee shall hold discharged from the demands of specialty creditors of the de - visor.
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In Jans mioh - yg alienee the Perfians, increafing to thirty thoii£nid« dc -
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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