cognizee

cognizee (plural cognizees)

1. (UK, historical, law) One to whom a fine of lands was acknowledged.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     the cognizor acknowledges the right to be in the cognizee

• cognizance

• “cognizee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.