Meanings
nouncommon recovery (plural common recoveries)
plural common recoveries
- UKhistoricallawA 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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common recovery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/common%20recovery
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“common recovery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/common%20recovery. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “common recovery,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/common%20recovery.
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