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warrantee|ˌwɒrənˈtiː|
[f. warrant v. + -ee1.]
1. Law. The person to whom a warranty is given.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), s.v. Exchange, The Compensation..which the Warranter must make to the Warrantee, Value for Value, if the Land warranted be recover'd from the Warrantee. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 430 It is the same with respect to the person to whom the warranty is made; for if it be not to the warrantee and his heirs,..it will cease upon the death of the warrantee. 1860Wharton Law Lex. (ed. 2), Warrantee, a person to whom a warrant is made.
¶2. Misused for warranter or guarantee n. 1, and (U.S.) for warranty 1.
1668Lond. Gaz. No. 256/2 [tr. of Let. from the Q. of Spain to the States of Holland] You will also joyntly endeavour as Warrantees, to do all that in reason can be expected..for the..strengthening of this Peace. 1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 400 If some Authors can be quoted for Warrantees of what this Se ma Tsien advances, they were modern to the Time when he wrote. 1874J. Wanamaker in Philadelphia Inquirer 26 Sept. 8/2 (Advt.), A printed guarantee, bearing the signature of the firm, will accompany each garment as a warrantee. This binds us in every sense, and will be honored as quickly as a good draft of the Government of the United States. 1980Verbatim Autumn 17/1 We have three perfectly good words in English, guarantee, warranty, and guaranty, all of the same origin and having the same meaning. Now some people are trying to add a fourth, warrantee. A TV salesman says, ‘We have a great warrantee on this product.’ |