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Recovery

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In Its most extensive sense, a recovery is the restoration or vindication of a right existing in a person, by the formal judgment or decree of a competent court, at his instance and suit or the obtaining, by such judgment, of some right or property which has bcen taken or withheld from him. This is aiso called a "true" recovery, to distinguish it from a "feigned" or "common" recovery. See Common Recovery.

Final recovery. The final judgment in an action. Also the final verdict in an action, as distinguished from the judgment entered upon it Fisk v. Gray, 100 Mass. 193; Count Joannes v. Pangborn. 6 Alien (Mass.) 243.