Meanings
plural bargainees
- historicallawThe party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property being sold.
A lease , or rather bargain and sale , upon some pecuniary consideration , for one year , is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Frenchbargaigné
- Englishbargainee
Old French bargaigné.
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