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mortgagee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mortgagee
noun
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▪ Every buyer, lessee and mortgagee of property in or in the vicinity of a coalmining area should search before exchanging contracts.
▪ Every buyer, lessee, mortgagee of registered land should search shortly before completion.
▪ For example, if the title deeds are left with the company, an equitable mortgagee by deposit will take priority.
▪ In practice most mortgagees require to join in the conveyance.
▪ Some mortgagees are dispensing with the involvement of conveyancers with endowment policies altogether.
▪ Some mortgagees insist on approving the draft conveyance or transfer and regard must therefore be had to the practice of each mortgagee.
▪ The mortgagee registers a puisne mortgage.
▪ The second mortgagee should also be a party to receive the additional covenant of the wife.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mortgagee

Mortgagee \Mort`ga*gee"\, n. (Law) The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mortgagee

1580s, from mortgage (v.) + -ee.

Wiktionary
mortgagee

n. One who provides a loan secured upon the borrowers' property, the lender in a mortgage agreement.

WordNet
mortgagee

n. the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home" [syn: mortgage holder]

Usage examples of "mortgagee".

Now, mortgagees in Dublin or London are not at all ready to take into account the difficulty of collecting rents in Connaught, and insist on being paid.

The new freeholders found that they had stopped being tenants, but were now mortgagees, paying back loans from banks instead of rent to landlords.

Michael's, and for every year, an equivalent must be paid for the benefit of the seigneur, saving the rights of others, by each and every of them, as well proprietaries as those seized by inheritance, and this for all terms of years, leases, freeholds, contracts domainiary and domainial, of mortgagees and mortgagors—"

Known Bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding 1% or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities, None.