Definition of Debtee

1. n. One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

Definition of Debtee

1. Noun. (legal) One who is owed a debt; a creditor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Debtee

1. a creditor [n -S] - See also: creditor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Debtee

debruised
debruises
debruising
debs
debt
debt-burden
debt-laden
debt-ridden
debt bondage
debt bondages
debt burden
debt ceiling
debt instrument
debt limit
debted
debtee (current term)
debtees
debtholder
debtholders
debtless
debtlike
debtor
debtor in possession
debtors
debtors in possession
debtour
debtours
debts
debuccalization
debuccalizations

Literary usage of Debtee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Office and Duty of Executors by Thomas Wentworth, Henry Curson, Henry Jeremy (1829)
"THIS making of the debtee executor, and the party who both should pay and be paid th debt, giveth him clearly power to pay himsel before any other, ..."

2. Sheppard's Touchstone of Common Assurances: Or, a Plain and Familiar by William Sheppard, Edward Hilliard, Richard Preston (1820)
"And yet, if the debtor make the debtee his executor, he may [as against creditors in equal degree] retain so much as to satisfy his own debt; ..."

3. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by George Croke, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Harbottle Grimston, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Leach (1792)
"FIRST, we agreed, that when the debtee makes the debtor his executor, ... but where the executor of the debtor is made executor to the debtee, ..."

4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1904)
"... seem to lay it down that a joint-debtee (2) might release one of his debtors; and yet, by using some language of reservation in the agreement between ..."

5. The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States by Conway Robinson (1858)
"1, the judges of the King's Bench agreed that " when the debtee makes the debtor his executor, it is not absolutely a discharge of the debt; ..."

6. Eight Centuries of Reports: Or, Eight Hundred Cases Solemnly Adjudged in the by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1885)
"A debtee sues a debtor in London, the debtor makes default, his FNB 22. goods shall be attached ; and if the debtor does not come within the 34 H- 6, ..."

7. A Treatise of Testaments and Last Willsby Henry Swinburne, Sarah (Jennings) Churchill Marlborough by Henry Swinburne, Sarah (Jennings) Churchill Marlborough (1793)
"If the debtee makes the Debtor his Executor, ... they may not be fued : But where the Executor of the Debtor ¡5 made Executor to the debtee, ..."

8. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"If the debtee makes the debtor and n Jira tiger executors, by vhich the debt is ... The debt TT , ' ' J [i,- So if debtee makes debtor exécuter and dies, ..."

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