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common recovery

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

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.

Forms of common recovery

pluralcommon recoveries

Questions about common recovery

What does common recovery mean?
Common recovery means a legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
What part of speech is common recovery?
Common recovery is a noun.
What is the plural of common recovery?
The plural of common recovery is common recoveries.

Words near common recovery in the dictionary

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