petitionee U.S. Law.
(pɪˌtɪʃəˈniː)
[f. petition v. + -ee.]
The person or party against whom a petition is filed, and who is required to answer and defend.
| 1764 Conn. Col. Rec. (1881) XII. 262 Unless the petitioner would..execute notes of hand to the petitionee for the whole added together. 1767 Ibid. 618 Under the circumstances the petitioner ought not in equity to be holden to answer the same to the petitionee. 1828–32 Webster, Petitionee, a person cited to defend against a petition. 1895 in Funk's Stand. Dict. |