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RECTO DE OUSTODIA TERRAE ET HAEREDIS

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A writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished. … [Read more...] about RECTO DE OUSTODIA TERRAE ET HAEREDIS

RECOVERER

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The demandant in a common recovery, after judgment has been given in his favor, assumes the name of recoverer. … [Read more...] about RECOVERER

RECTO DE RATIONABLE PARTE

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A writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies In blood; as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee simple. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 9. … [Read more...] about RECTO DE RATIONABLE PARTE

RECOVERY

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In its most extensive sense, a recovery is the restoration or vindication of a right existing in a person, by the formal judgment or decree of a competent court at his instance and suit, or the obtaining, by such judgment, of some right or property which has been taken or withheld from him. This is also called a "true" recovery, to distingulsh it from a "feigned" or "common" … [Read more...] about RECOVERY

RECTO QUANDO (OR QUIA) DOMINUS REMISIT CURIAM

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A writ of right when or because the lord had remitted his court which lay where lands or tenements in the selgnory of any lord were in demand by a writ of right Fitzh. Nat Brev. 16. … [Read more...] about RECTO QUANDO (OR QUIA) DOMINUS REMISIT CURIAM

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