vendee

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The Roman Mancipation required the presence first of all of the parties, the vendor and vendee, or we should perhaps rather say, if we are to use modern legal language, the grantor and grantee.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

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

Again, a vendee who has paid any part of the purchase money before the delivery of the deed to him has a lien for the amount advanced.

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

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

A valuable privilege under which an unpaid consigner or broker may stop or countermand his goods upon their passage to the consignee on the insolvency of the vendee.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir