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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RECREANT
Coward or craven. The word pronounced by a combatant in the trial by battel, when he acknowledged himself beaten. 3 Bl. Comm. 340. … [Read more...] about RECREANT
RECTO SUR DISCLAIMER
An abolished writ on disclaimer. … [Read more...] about RECTO SUR DISCLAIMER
RECRIMINATION
A charge made by an accused person against the accuser; in particular a counter-charge of adultery or cruelty made by one charged with the same offense in a suit for divorce, against the person who has charged him or her. Wharton. Recrimination is a showing by the defendant of any cause of divorce against the plaintiff, in bar of the plaintiffs cause of divorce. … [Read more...] about RECRIMINATION
RECTO, BREVE DE
A writ of right which was of so high a nature that as other writs in real actions were only to recover the possession of the land, etc., in question, this aimed to recover the seisin and the property, and thereby both the rights of possession and property were tried together. Cowell. … [Read more...] about RECTO, BREVE DE