English Explanatory Dictionary

common recovery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.

Word forms

common recovery common recoveries
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