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Definition of Grantee

1. Noun. A recipient of a grant.

2. Noun. Someone to whom the title of property is transferred.

Definition of Grantee

1. n. The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Definition of Grantee

1. Noun. the person to whom something is granted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grantee

1. one to whom something is granted [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grantee

granolith granolithic granoliths granophyre granophyres granophyric granpappies granpappy grans grant

grant-back grant-forward grant-in-aid grantable granted grantee (current term) grantees granter granters grantest

granteth granthi granting granting immunity grantmaking grantor grantor trust grantors grantour grants

Literary usage of Grantee

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"4879), to prove repudiation of the conveyance by the grantee; ... The grantee, John S. Downs, is his son, ana the defendants are the son's widow and heirs ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"ANNUITY, part of the price of an estate, for the life of the grantee, aged thirty-two, taken at an under value, from hia state of health ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"[312] Xf. Justice Omy delivered the opinion of the court: This action is brought by a mortgagee against the executrix of the grantee named in, ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The delivery of an absolute deed, together with an agreement from the grantee allowing the grantor to redeem within one year, constitutes a mortgage, ..."

5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"Vested rights of the grantee under the Railway Land Grant Act of July 27, 1866 (14 Stat. at L. 292, chap. 278), which expressly stated that such act was ..."

6. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"If the grantee of an annuity pro ... this does not determine the annuity, but the grantee ... but by the a£l of Gad the grantee is ..."

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