mortgagee

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mortgagee
    n 1: the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our
         mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home"
         [syn: {mortgagee}, {mortgage holder}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mortgagee \Mort`ga*gee"\, n. (Law)
   The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a
   mortgage is made or given.
   [1913 Webster] Mortgageor

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

MORTGAGEE, estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.
     2. He is entitled to the payment of the money secured to him by the 
mortgage; he has the legal estate in the land mortgaged, and may recover it 
in ejectment, on the other hand he cannot commit waste; 4 Watts, R. 460; he 
cannot make leases to the injury of the mortgagor; and he must account for 
the profits he receives out of the thing mortgaged when in possession. 
Cruise, Dig. tit. 15, c. 2.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "mortgagee":
      Shylock, banker, bill collector, collection agent, credit man,
      creditor, creditress, debtee, dun, dunner, godchild, goddaughter,
      godson, insuree, lender, loan officer, loan shark, loaner,
      money broker, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder,
      mortgage-holder, note-holder, pawnbroker, policyholder, usurer,
      warrantee