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RECOVEREE

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In old conveyancing. The party who suffered a common recovery. … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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