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Recovery

Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial.The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280.A true recovery is an actual or real recovery of anything, or the value thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment.A feigned recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to the entail. But incumbrances on the estate-tail equally affected such fee-simple, and any estate or interest prior to the entail remained undisturbed.This assurance consisted of two parts: (1) The recovery itself, which was a fictitious rea action in the Court of Common Pleas, carr...


Crave

To ask with earnestness or importunity to ask with submission or humility to beg to entreat to beseech to implore...


Craver

One who craves or begs...


Craving

Vehement or urgent desire longing for beseeching...


Dipsomania

A morbid an uncontrollable craving often periodic for drink esp for alcoholic liquors also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism...


Hunger

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food a craving or desire for food...


Inhiation

A gaping after eager desire craving...


Lickerish

Eager craving urged by desire eager to taste or enjoy greedy...


Longing

An eager desire a craving a morbid appetite an earnest wish an aspiration...


Declaratory actions

Declaratory actions, those wherein the right of the pursuer is craved to be declared; but nothing claimed to be done by the defender, Ibid....


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