Promisee

3 definitions found

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

  Promisee \Prom`is*ee"\, n. (Law)
     The person to whom a promise is made.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  promisee
       n : a person to whom a promise is made

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

  PROMISEE. A person to whom a promise has been made. 
       2. In general a promisee can maintain an action on a promise made to 
  him, but when the consideration moves not from the promisee, but some other 
  person, the latter, and not the promisee, has a cause of action, because he 
  is the person for whose use the contract was made. Latch, 272; Poph. 81; 3 
  Cro. 77; 1 Raym, 271, 368; 4 B. & Ad. 434; 1 N. & M. 303; S. C. Cowp. 437; 
  S. C. Dougl. 142. But see Carth. 5 2 Ventr. 307; 9 M. & W. 92) 96.