common recovery
common recovery · common recoveries
A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into…A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
Meaning
1 senses(UK, 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.
Forms
plural: common recoveries| Singular | common recovery |
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See also
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