chargee

From charge +‎ -ee.

chargee (plural chargees)

1. One who is charged; the person on whom a charge is levied, who is charged with a crime, who is charged to do something, etc.
   • 1948, The Chemical Age - Volume 59, page 133:

     June 18, charge to the Industrial Rehabilitiation Finance Board securing all sums which the chargees may be called upon to pay under or by reason of a guarantee;

   • 1995, Geneva Smitherman, African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas:

     The most important point in the prehearing thinking was that both the charger and the chargee were African Americans.

   • 1999, Richard Mervyn Hare, R. M. Hare, Objective Prescriptions, and Other Essays, pages 43–44:

     Imperative speech acts vary enormously in the relation of the speaker to the chargee, the purposes sought, the kind of situation, the presence or absence of a power of enforcement or threat of punishment, and many other features.

   • 2011, Jesse Spears, The Science of Magic, page 38:

     Charging modifies the first attack of the charger, and the first attack of the chargee.

2. (law) The holder or beneficiary of a charge or right in security (such as a debenture).
   • 1998, Air and Space Law - Volume 23, page ii:

     A chargee proposing to sell or grant a lease of an object under paragraph 1 otherwise than pursuant to a court order shall give reasonable prior notice in writing of the proposed sale or lease to interested persons.

   • 2012, Horst Eidenmüller, Eva-Maria Kieninger, The Future of Secured Credit in Europe, page 89:

     A charge differs from a trust because the chargee's right to the chargor's right is defeasible upon the chargor paying what he owes.

   • 2025, HM Land Registry, Practice guide 75: transfer under a chargee's power of sale:

     the chargee has a statutory power of sale when the mortgage money is due

3. (law, Africa) One who is given charge of caring for another's animal or herd.
   • 1954, Taslim Olawale Elias, Groundwork of Nigerian Law, page 237:

     But the chargee will be entitled to a proportionate abatement of the price of the animal if the carcass is later sold.

   • 1970, E. Cotran, N. N. Rubin, Readings in African Law, Volume 1, page 222:

     Among the Yorubas, the first breed belongs to the owner of the animal, the next to the chargee, the third to the owner, and so on.

   • 1984, Odu: A Journal of West African Studies - Issues 25-31, page 97:

     In the latter case the potential chargee made a direct approach to his relative, friend or neighbour who possessed livestock (goats, for instance) or was capable of procuring some, indicating his interest in being a chargee for his animal.

• (legal): chargor