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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mortgagee \Mort`ga*gee"\, n. (Law)
     The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a
     mortgage is made or given.
     [1913 Webster] Mortgageor

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mortgagee
       n : the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our
           mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home"
           [syn: {mortgage holder}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "mortgagee":
     Shylock, banker, bill collector, collection agent, credit man,
     creditor, creditress, debtee, dun, dunner, godchild, goddaughter,
     godson, insuree, lender, loan officer, loan shark, loaner,
     money broker, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder,
     mortgage-holder, note-holder, pawnbroker, policyholder, usurer,
     warrantee
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MORTGAGEE, estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.
       2. He is entitled to the payment of the money secured to him by the 
  mortgage; he has the legal estate in the land mortgaged, and may recover it 
  in ejectment, on the other hand he cannot commit waste; 4 Watts, R. 460; he 
  cannot make leases to the injury of the mortgagor; and he must account for 
  the profits he receives out of the thing mortgaged when in possession. 
  Cruise, Dig. tit. 15, c. 2. 
  
  

















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