common recovery
(UK, legal, historical) A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
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(UK, legal, historical) A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
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(UK, legal, historical) A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
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To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.