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Replevin :: Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention..

Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle..

Redraft :: Redraft (n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges..

Right :: Right (v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.

Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc..

Retrieve :: Retrieve (v. t.) To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence..

Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..

Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body..

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 act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession..

Recuperatory :: Recuperatory (a.) Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

Recuperable :: Recuperable (a.) Recoverable.

Trover :: Trover (n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion..

Breathe :: Breathe (v. t.) To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse..

Readeption :: Readeption (n.) A regaining; recovery of something lost.

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.

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.

Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.

Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.

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..

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