destinatory

English

Noun

destinatory (plural destinatories)

1. One who is the intended recipient of an action.
   • 1990, Ellen Spolsky, The Uses of Adversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 95:

     The seeing consciousness of the actual observer or destinatory behaves as a master who wants to appropriate the art object, the text. As a matter of fact, it has every reason to behave so because the first dialectics—described in the preceding section—has found its mastery: to create a text, to create a work of art is from the outset to demand its hermeneutic reconstruction by a destinatory. […] that the receiver or observer (destinatory) can attain […]

   • 2003 November 13, F. W. Maitland, Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93:

     […] among the creditors of the destinatory. This, it need hardly be said, is an important point. To produce all these results took a long time.

   • 2016 May 26, P. G. Turner, Equity and Administration, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     That bank-note belongs 'in equity' to the destinatories [sc. beneficiaries]. He pays it away as the price of shares in a company; those shares belong 'in equity' to the destinatories. He becomes bankrupt; those shares will not be part […]

   • (Can we date this quote?), Supreme Court, page 82:

     ... the information as to the name or names of the ultimate recipients, destinatories, or consumers of the said goods, and of the port or ports of destination should be furnished to the customs authorities at the port of Calcutta.