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obligee|ɒblɪˈdʒiː|
Also 6 oblyge, -lige.
[f. oblige v.: see -ee.]
1. Law. One to whom another is bound by contract; the person to whom a bond is given. (Correlative to obligor.)
1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 104 b, If y⊇ oblyge..release to the obligor al actions. a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 61 So vpon condition that the Obligee shall bring to the Obligors shop (being a tailor) three yards of cloth which shall be shapen, and the Obligor to make the Obligee a gowne of it: the Obligor must shape it. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xx. 341 If the condition..becomes impossible by..the act of the obligee himself, there the penalty of the obligation is saved. 1841S. Warren Ten Thousand a Year xvii, The obligee of the bond..was Mr. Tittlebat Titmouse.
†b. One who undertakes an obligation. Obs.
1590Swinburne Testaments 261–2 No more to be accounted a testament..then..the draught of an obligation is to be accounted for an obligation before it be sealed and deliuered by the oblige as his acte and deede. 1689Def. Liberty agst. Tyrants 144 Can the bankrumpting of one of the Obligees quit the rest of their ingagement?
2. One who is under obligation on account of benefits or kindnesses received.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey Ep. Ded. 1 Presidents of worthy witts and particular Obligees to eminent Patrons. 1682Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Chances Wks. (1714) 172, I am so highly your Obligee for the manner of your Enquiries. 1827Lytton Pelham xxiii, If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive—solicit even—favours, than to accord them; for the vanity of the obliger is always flattered—that of the obligee rarely. |