The person in a legal agreement who receives an acknowledgment; the party to whom a conusance is made.
Formed from 'conusance' with the Old French suffix '-ee' (similar to English '-ee'), indicating the person who receives the action rather than performs it.
This word shows how English borrowed the French legal system's vocabulary wholesale—the '-ee' ending still survives in modern words like 'employee' and 'trustee,' all tracing back to this medieval legal innovation.
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