vendee

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Purchase -- N. purchase, emption†; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal. coemption†, bribery; slave trade. buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client, customer, clientele.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

His position is thus that of a surety who is liable to his principal should the vendee make default.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

As a rule, they were paid only by the vendee, and to the market clerk, whose record of the payment was an attestation to the genuineness of the purchase.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The vendee or purchaser would sue to recover for a broken covenant.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney

Now I suppose you wouldn’t have thought that I was a vendee, would you?”

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville