donee
(dəʊˈniː)
[f. stem of don-or + -ee.]
One to whom anything is given; esp. in Law, (a) one to whom anything is given gratuitously; (b) one to whom land is conveyed in fee tail; (c) one to whom a ‘power’ is given for execution.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 7 b, This donee or this purchasoure shall take [etc.]. 1598 Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 218 A Donee in tail. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. vii. §16 Not sixty of the Kings Donees had sons owning their fathers estates. 1767 Blackstone Comm. II. vii. 110 If the donee died without such particular heirs, the land should revert to the donor. 1875 Maine Hist. Inst. ii. 56 The Church, as the donee of pious gifts. |