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Resceit

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English Jiractice. An admission or receiving a third person to plead hls right in a cause formerly commenced between two others; as, in an action by tenant for life or years, he in the reversion might come in and pray to be received to defend the land, and to plead with the demandant Cowell.

Resceit of homage. The lord's receiving homage of hls tenant at his admission to the land. Kitch. 148.