Lessee: alternatives and connections

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to…

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right o…

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted;…

One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with indepe…

(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular e…

A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which…

The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change…

the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by…

To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…

Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., o…

A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a univer…

One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.

One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Go…