[f. WARRANT v. + -EE1.]
1. Law. The person to whom a warranty is given.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), s.v. Exchange, The Compensation … which the Warranter must make to the Warrantee, Value for Value, if the Land warranted be recover’d from the Warrantee.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), IV. 430. It is the same with respect to the person to whom the warranty is made; for if it be not to the warrantee and his heirs,… it will cease upon the death of the warrantee.
1860. Wharton, Law Lex. (ed. 2), Warrantee, a person to whom a warrant is made.
† 2. Misused for WARRANTER or GUARANTEE sb. 1.
1668. Lond. Gaz., No. 256/2. [tr. of Let. from the Q. of Spain to the States of Holland] You will also joyntly endeavour as Warrantees, to do all that in reason can be expected … for the … strengthening of this Peace.
1730. Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 400. If some Authors can be quoted for Warrantees of what this Se ma Tsien advances, they were modern to the Time when he wrote.
