Recto
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A writ of right, in various cases. The following are particularly mentioned: Recto de advocatlone ecclesiae. Writ of right of advowson. This was a writ of right which lay for a man who, having a right of advowson, had allowed a stranger to usurp the presentation, without bringing an action of guare impedit or darrein presentment within six months. Cowel. It was abolished in 1833 by Stat. 8 & 4 Wm. IV. ch.
27, § 36.
Recto de dote, or, more briefly, dote, was a writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, but was deprived of the residue, lying in the same town, by the wrong of the same tenant.
Cowel; 8 Bl. Com. 182, 183; 3 Steph. Com. 897, 605, note.
For this writ a personal action was substituted, by the common-law procedure act, 1860. Cowel. See Unde nthil habet. Recto Bur disclaimer A writ that lay where a tenant disclaimed to hold of his lord; that is to say, denied the title of his lord as lord to the land held by him of him, he recovered back the land from the tenant for ever.
Cowel; 8 Bl. Com. 233.
It was abolished in 1883 by Stat. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. ch.
27, § 86.