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Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant..

Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had..

Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..

Analepsy :: Analepsy () Recovery of strength after sickness.

Gavelet :: Gavelet (n.) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

Reclaim :: Reclaim (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery..

Elasticity :: Elasticity (n.) Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork..

Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..

Restoration :: Restoration (n.) The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness..

Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it..

Recoveree :: Recoveree (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.

Bar :: Bar (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up..

Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..

Recure :: Recure (n.) Cure; remedy; recovery.

Voucher :: Voucher (n.) The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.

Recoveror :: Recoveror (n.) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.

Convalescency :: Convalescency (n.) The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant..

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