nominee

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NOMINEE, noun 1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestuy que use, sometimes called the surrenderee. 2. A person named or designated by another. 3. A person on whose life depends an annuity.
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