Payee
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The person in whose favor a note or bill of exchange is made payable.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
One to whom money is payable.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The person In whose favor a bill of exchange is made payable. See Bills of Exchange.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In mercantile law. The person in whose favor a bill of exchange, promissory note or check is made or drawn; the person to whom or to whose order a bill, note or check Is made payable. 3 Kent, Comm. 75.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The person to whom payment is who pays.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
v. Note, Bill, III. 4.