Recovery

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.