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common recoveries

common recoveries is the plural of common recovery.

Meaning of common recovery

Noun

common recovery (plural common recoveries)

  1. (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.

Questions about common recoveries

What is common recoveries the plural of?
Common recoveries is the plural of common recovery.

Words near common recoveries in the dictionary

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  4. common raven
  5. common ravens
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  10. common redshank
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