Definition of recover

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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..

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Recovering :: Recovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recove.
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..
Debt :: Debt (n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession..
Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution..
Resuscitate :: Resuscitate (v. t.) To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants..
Recuperatory :: Recuperatory (a.) Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Audita Querela :: Audita querela () A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment..
Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..
Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant..
Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
Recognize :: Recognize (v. t.) To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of..
Reception :: Reception (n.) A retaking; a recovery.
Revalescent :: Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
Regain :: Regain (v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again..
Post-disseizor :: Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.
Recuperate :: Recuperate (v. i.) To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
Warish :: Warish (v. i.) To be cured; to recover.
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