单词 | allottee |
释义 | allotteen. A person to whom something (esp. land or shares) is allotted; spec. an American Indian owning land on a reservation (cf. Indian reservation n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a)). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > one to whom allotment is made allottee1819 locatee1834 1819 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 2 171 (marg. note) The purchaser should be admitted tenant..at the same time as the other allottees of copy-hold lands. 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 62/1 The national gaming-table was open to men of every class. Peer and peasant..were alike entitled to figure as allottees. 1882 Daily News 16 Dec. 2/3 [He] never agreed to become an allottee of shares from the company. 1903 Rep. Secretary of Interior (U.S. Dept. of Interior) iv. 41 The..agreements with the Creek and Cherokee nations provide that allottees may lease allotted lands for mineral purposes, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. 1984 Times 10 Feb. 2/7 (advt.) Failure to register renunciation by 2nd March will result in the registration of the shares in the name of the original allottee. 2004 Isis 95 187 The United States government..decided to intervene,..to protect the rights of..Native American allottees of parcels of land bordering the river. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1819 |
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