vestee

Noun

vestee (plural vestees)

1. A dickey, especially one made to resemble a vest and be worn under a coat.
2. (US) A woman's small vest.
   • It was difficult to tell what Yashmeen was thinking as she offered her lips. He was concentrating on not getting her vestee wet.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 914
3. The entity or party in which something has been vested.
   • Droits réels is ambiguous, as sometimes denoting jura in rem, and sometimes jura in re (sensu stricto). This arises from the extension of jus in re to dominia, and of jus ad rem to obligationes or jura in personam.
     Difficulty: Where a thing is subject to a series of rights, – is subject to a series...1885 John Austin ed Robert Campbell: Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Law 5th edition Vol 2. p.852
   • The following extract from a private letter of the late Sir Joseph Banks is worth quoting . . . : "It matters not to the heirs . . .whether the estate is held by Knight Service or by Grand Serjeantry. . . Scrivelsby. . . is held by the proprietor with all the benefits by the common law provided for...1894 Samuel Lodge: The Home of the Champions 2nd ed.