[f. CHARGE v. or sb. + -EE; on analogy of mortgagee.] The holder of a charge upon property, or of a security over a contract.
1884. Law Rep. 26 Chanc. Div., 625. The chargees … were entitled to a charge on 90 per cent. of the moneys payable under the contract.
1886. Law Times, LXXX. 166/1. The … chargee intended to protect himself by a policy of insurance against the infants both dying under twenty-one.
