vendee

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A valuable privilege under which an unpaid consigner or broker may stop or countermand his goods upon their passage to the consignee on the insolvency of the vendee.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Neither venders nor vendee grieved at the result.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

The vendee or purchaser would sue to recover for a broken covenant.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney

Purchase -- N. purchase, emption†; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal. coemption†, bribery; slave trade. buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client, customer, clientele.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

As a rule, they were paid only by the vendee, and to the market clerk, whose record of the payment was an attestation to the genuineness of the purchase.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various