Definition of "grantee" []

• Law One to whom a grant is made. (noun)

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• "According to the county, each grantee is required to submit interim and final reports of the project’s progress accompanied by photographs that detail the progress."
• "When the conditions have been complied with, the deed is given by its custodian to the grantee, which is as legal as if it were given by the grantor in person."
• "Although earldoms were granted by charters from the earliest period, because, attached to the earldom, were also material rights which needed to be conveyed, patents did not come into use for baronies until it was desired to limit the succession of the peerage to the heirs male of the body of the grantee, which is a limitation and a less heirship than is comprised in the enjoyment of an honour in fee simple."