bargainee

English

Etymology

Old French bargaigné.

Noun

bargainee (plural bargainees)

1. (law, historical) The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property being sold.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     A lease , or rather bargain and sale , upon some pecuniary consideration , for one year , is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bargainee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)