† relesseen.
Law. Obsolete.
A person to whom an estate, property, claim, etc., is released; = releasee n. Opposed to relessor n.
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1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 176 A quaere is there made, whether or no, if a man..release to his brother, who is not in possession; whether an use hereby ariseth to the relessee?
1715 G. Jacob Accomplish'd Conveyancer II. Table sig. Ll3 Release of a Messuage, &c. made from one who held it under a Superior Lord, subject to an yearly Rent, with Habendum to the Relessee, and his Heirs.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xx. 325 The occupancy of the relessee is a matter of sufficient notoriety already.
1857 Amer. Law Reg. 5 311 An alteration in the date of a general release, which purports to discharge the relessee from all claims and demands ‘to the day of the date’, is a material alteration.
1862 Irish Chancery Rep. XII. 161 The intention was to make the son merely a relessee to uses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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