Law. [f. prec. vb. + -EE.] The person to whom an estate, etc., is surrendered: correlative to surrenderor.
1662. Hughes, Abridgm. Law, III. 1907/1. A Copyholder doth Surrender unto the use of a Stranger, for ever, and the Lord admits the Surrenderee to hold to him and his heirs.
1741. T. Robinson, Gavelkind, I. vi. 98. The Surrenderee died before Admittance.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. 326. The surrenderor must be in possession; and the surrenderee must have a higher estate, in which the estate surrendered may merge.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVII. 390/1. A devisee or surrenderee of copyholds.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. § 169. The surrenderee of a guardianship is called a cessionary guardian.
