3. (Law)
Defn: A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made. Burrill.
VOLUNTEER
Vol`un*teer", a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
VOLUNTEER
Vol`un*teer", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Volunteered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Volunteering.]
Defn: To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
VOLUNTEER
Vol`un*teer", v. i.
Defn: To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
VOLUNTEER NAVY
Vol`un*teer" na"vy.
Defn: A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did not come within the meaning of the term privateer.