Resignee
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One in favor of whom a resignation is made.
1 Bell, Comm. 125, note.
RESILIRE (Lat.) In old English law. To draw back from a contract before it is made binding. Literally, to leap back or start Isack. Adhunc possunt partes resilire, the parties may yet draw back. Braeton, fol.
38; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 68, § 3.
The Scotch law, with its accustomed closeness, renders this word resile.