Meanings
verbrecoupe (third-person singular simple present recoupes, present participle recouping, simple past and past participle recouped)
present singular third person recoupes · participle present recouping · participle past recouped · past recouped
- archaicArchaic form of recoup.
Under our former practice this defence could not be pleaded in bar, because it admits that the plaintiff has a right to sue, and seeks to recoupe damages on the ground that the plaintiff has failed to perform some stipulation in the contract[…]
1855, Isaac Edwards, A treatise on the law of bailments, page 361
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