transferee [trans-fuh-ree] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a person who is transferred or removed, as from one place to another.
- Law. a person to whom a transfer is made, as of property.
Origin of transferee First recorded in 1730–40; transfer + -ee Examples from the Web for transferee Historical Examples of transferee
An assignment of a chattel mortgage apart from the debt secured, passes no interest to the transferee.
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 3
Various
Secondly, that it was a new power which he erected, and that he was not merely the transferee of the power of the Perseid line.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3
W. E. Gladstone
The transferee cannot acquire a better title than the party from whom he took it had ( 36).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7
Various
Each is “a transferee by virtue of section 18 of a limited portion of the copyright in that particular composition.”
A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown,
E. J. MacGillivray
In the transfer of shares, do you require the name of the transferee to be submitted and approved before the transfer is made?
Chester Arthur Phillips
British Dictionary definitions for transferee transferee noun
- property law a person to whom property is transferred
- a person who is transferred
Word Origin and History for transferee n.
1590s, “one who is transferred;” 1736 as “one to whom a transfer is made;” from transfer (v.) + -ee.