In many cases the words also connote actions which would be done under certain contingencies by persons other than those denoted: as the words mortgagor and mortgagee, obligor and obligee, and many other words expressive of legal relation, which connote what a court of justice would do to enforce the legal obligation if not fulfilled.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
Hence the merchant-the planter-the mortgagee-the manufacturer-the politician-the legislator-the cabinet-minister-lifted up their voices against the annihilation of it.
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson
I had barely accomplished the work, the cricket ground had just been levelled, when the landlord's agent-or more probably his "mortgagee"-arrived on the scene, accompanied by a hard-headed, blustering timber merchant from Cheltenham.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs