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Common recovery

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Definition:
A fictitious form of action by which a tenant in tail was able to convey his estate in fee simple. See 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258.
Common Recovery

Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

Definition:
In conveyancing. A species of common assurance or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, formerly in frequent use in England. It was in the nature and form of an action at law, carried regularly through, and ending in a recovery of the lands against the tenant of the freehold; which recovery, being a supposed adjudication of the right, bound all persons, and vested a free and absolute fee-simple in the recovered 2 Bl. Comm. 357. Christy v. Burch, 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258. Common recoveries were abolished by the statutes 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.