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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.