covenantee

[ kuhv-uh-nuh n-tee, -nan- ]

/ ˌkʌv ə nənˈti, -næn- /

noun

a person to whom something is promised in a covenant.

Nearby words

covellite, coven, covenant, covenant of the league of nations, covenant of warranty, covenantee, covenanter, covenantor, covent garden, coventry, coventry bell

Origin of covenantee

First recorded in 1640–50; covenant + -ee

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Examples from the Web for covenantee

When such a covenant is made, the legal estate in the land passes at once to the covenantee under the statute.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6|Various
The assign, as in warranty, came in under the old covenant with the first covenantee, not by any new right of his own.
The Common Law|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If the covenant was to be approached from the side of contract, the heir was party to it as representing the covenantee.
The Common Law|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Hence the plaintiff must always be privy in estate with the covenantee.
The Common Law|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some have supposed this privity to be tenure; some, an interest of the covenantee in the land of the covenantor; and so on.
The Common Law|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

British Dictionary definitions for covenantee

covenantee

/ (ˌkʌvənənˈtiː) /

noun

the person to whom the promise in a covenant is made

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