Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the party to whom a bargain and sale is made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law The
party to acontract who receives, or agrees to receive, theproperty being sold.
Etymologies
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BARGAIN [1] AND SALE, in English law, a contract whereby property, real or personal, is transferred from one person -- called the bargainer -- to another -- called the bargainee -- for a [v. 03 p. 0399] valuable consideration; but the term is more particularly used to describe a mode of conveyance of lands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Where a man bargained and sold his land to another for pecuniary consideration, which might be merely nominal, and need not necessarily be actually paid, equity held the bargainer to be seised of the land to the use of the bargainee.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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He that fells is the bargainor y he that buys the bargainee.
A Law Grammar; Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. 1791
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And it makes no difference, whether it is limitea to the use of the bargainee or the releasee, or to a stranger, or to kimstlf for life with remainders over: for the base fee feeds all the uses that are limited upon it: till avoided by the entry of the issue in taiL Qja.
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By tenant in tail, bargainee levies a fire, and five years pafs, iiTue (hall have five years after his father's death; othcrwifc if di (reifed, and the diffeifbr levies a fine, - r 896
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