vestees

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