"common recovery" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: common recoveries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} common recovery (plural common recoveries)
  1. (UK, law, 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. Tags: UK, historical Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-common_recovery-en-noun-A1XCmpa- Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: law

Inflected forms

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