Meaning & use
Libelee
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In admiralty or ecclesiastical law, the party against whom a libel (a formal written complaint) is filed; the respondent in such a proceeding.
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The libelee filed a response denying the shipowner's claims in the admiralty suit.
As libelee, the defendant had thirty days to answer the charges laid out in the libel.
A note on using this word
This term survives mainly in older admiralty and maritime law, where lawsuits are called "libels" and the parties are the "libelant" and "libelee" rather than plaintiff and defendant.
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